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What about RMS?

What about RMS?

Posted Nov 14, 2003 18:22 UTC (Fri) by andrel (subscriber, #5166)
Parent article: OSDL pays Linus's legal bills

Has anybody offered to cover Richard's legal bills?


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What about RMS?

Posted Nov 14, 2003 18:35 UTC (Fri) by dr_lha (guest, #86) [Link]

I believe the FSF has legal counsel, so RMS should be well respresented.

What about RMS?

Posted Nov 16, 2003 17:35 UTC (Sun) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

Eben Moglen (FSF's attorney) and I both serve as expert witnesses and I had the opportunity to depose him recently - in a case you never heard of and probably never will. He handled it very well. No doubt Richard will be well-prepared.

Bruce

What about RMS?

Posted Nov 17, 2003 22:25 UTC (Mon) by emk (guest, #1128) [Link]

Eben Moglen (FSF's attorney) and I both serve as expert witnesses and I had the opportunity to depose him recently - in a case you never heard of and probably never will. He handled it very well.

Moglen is a former Supreme Court clerk (for Thurgood Marshall, I believe), a respected professor of law at Columbia, and a world-class expert in free software and open source licenses. He's charismatic, well-spoken, and knows copyright law very well.

He's just about the last person I'd want to tangle with in a copyright infringement case.

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