My Tongue-Lashing from Eben Moglen | Linux Today

My Tongue-Lashing from Eben Moglen

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 20, 2007

“It created a bit of a stir at the O’Reilly Radar Executive
Briefing on Open Source a few weeks ago when Eben Moglen, who’d
been invited to speak with me about free software licensing in the
era of Web 2.0, chose instead to take me to task for talking about
open source rather than free software for the past ten years, and
for ‘wasting time promoting commercial products.’ A number of
people asked to see the video from the session. Even though we
hadn’t planned to release the video from the executive briefing, we
were able to get a copy…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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