The first set of FOSDEM interviews

FOSDEM (Brussels, February 5-6) has posted the first set of its traditional speaker interviews; featured this time are a certain LWN editor, Eben Moglen, James Turnbull, Boudewijn Rempt, and Gratien D'haese. Quoting Eben: "Currently, governments are very eager to control the Net, which is a disaster for freedom. Industry is responding to the mobile computing revolution by trying to lock down the devices people use in their daily lives. And powerful industrial players who make money by surveilling people and data-mining the resulting information are encouraging more people to give up their basic privacy for small, if not meaningless, benefits. All are large threats to freedom, and if our strategies worked against only one or two such threats, we could still fail."

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