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Eben Moglen on the Global Software Industry Post-GPL3

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the before-and-after dept.

Dan Shearer writes "Three days before GPLv3 was released, Eben Moglen delivered the annual lecture of The Scottish Society of Computers and Law in Edinburgh, Scotland giving his thoughts on 'The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3.' The text transcription, audio and 384kbit video are up at archive.org. Eben looks back at the 'legislative action' achieved by the GPLv3 community over the last 18 months, and also from the 22nd century. A riveting presentation for all present."

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  1. is this guy a Time Lord?? by RobertLTux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or is he maybe talking about the work done creating V3??

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    1. Re:is this guy a Time Lord?? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Most people don't know this, but the Gallifreyans have been interfering, or should I say, intervening, in Earth history for centuries. Usually, it's when we're about to screw up bigtime, or the Master does something he shouldn't be doing and screws us up bigtime. They've never bothered to maintain an ongoing presence here, so far as I'm aware, so I don't think Moglen is an actual Time Lord.

      On the the other hand, they may have given him a few hints.

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