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The Guardian: ‘A Lawyer Who Is Also Idealist–How Refreshing’

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Glyn Mody
Mar 31, 2006

“At least 10% more programming effort is being poured into
software released under the General Public Licence (GPL)–the legal
underpinning of three-quarters of all free software such as the
Linux operating system – than the combined output of all the
programmers in Microsoft.

“So says Eben Moglen, who has been analysing the coding hours
per week people have done. And he should know: this hacker lawyer
has for the past 12 years been official guardian of the GPL, and is
overseeing the important process of crafting version 3 of what
amounts to a constitution for the world of free software…”

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