[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“BOSTON — Eben Moglen, director-counsel and chairman
at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), has long stood at the
forefront of the free software revolution. At LinuxCon this week,
Moglen delivered a keynote address in which he lauded the
movement’s many successes, ending with the capacity crowd giving
him a standing ovation.“”At the beginning of this conspiracy of ours, we wanted to make
it happen that freedom would go inside of everything, and then we
could turn it on,” Moglen said. “We are making freedom useful to
people.”“But Moglen, who helped to draft the GPL license used by many
open source projects including the Linux kernel, also had plenty to
say about challenges still facing free and open source software,
and what more must be done to safeguard the effort’s man”