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Mike Godwin hired by Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nazis-in-dept-line-mean-story-is-cancelled dept.

Raul654 writes "Mike Godwin, first legal counsel for the EFF who is best known for coining Godwin's law, has been hired as the legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation."

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  1. Re:Qualifications by mnemonic · · Score: 5, Interesting


    EFF won the Steve Jackson Games case and Reno versus ACLU. Both cases were won while I was staff counsel at EFF. Just saying.

    (I should add that I'm proud of EFF's work since then.)

  2. Re:Hmm by rs79 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "He'll need to make a law about jokes about Godwin's Law"

    Oh let me go first: Sexton't law: "Make up a snappy one line for alt.flame and Mike Godwin will steal it for his own".

    Check the dates:
    http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/b54 314f075182eeb

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  3. Re:He'd make awesome council by rs79 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I should have theougt the pudgy pot smoking basement dwelling freedom (and in everything) loving crowd of slashdot would have recognized the proprietary capture of a cool and friendly slogan by a lawyer when they saw. But maybe not.

    My purpose in the original incantation of same ( http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/b54 314f075182eeb ) was to guarentee the freedom and protection from proprietary interests of said meme in a pre-prenguin gpl'less world.

    And what happens? You schmucks play right into his hands and incant the demon himself by chanting his name over and over again. Arize from the depts of legal hell oh Mike Godwin. Take these souls that have pleged their dark hearts to you.

    I know Mike Godwin. I like Mike Godwin. Mike is a friend of mine. But he's still a dirty thief.

    Oh, the horror.

    Richard Sexton
    Froup this, bitch.
    http://rs79.vrx.net/works/usenet/

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  4. Re:Qualifications by mnemonic · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Don't worry, I'm over the whole sink thing.

    By the way, Glen is now my neighbor in Silver Spring!

    --Mike