Moglen
Eben Moglen (* 1959 ) is Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia Law School in New York .
Life
He is pro bono Chief Counsel of the Free Software Foundation and founder and chairman of the company founded in February 2005 Software Freedom Law Center .
Eben Moglen began building software as a professional programmer when he was 13. From 1979 to 1985 he worked as a developer for programming languages at IBM . In 1991 he defended Philip Zimmerman , developer of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) , which had been the subject of US government criminal investigations for several years. Since then, Eben Moglen has been an advocate for the Free Media and Free Technology movements.
Moglen believes that free software is an important prerequisite for a democratic and free society, as we are surrounded and dependent on technical devices. Only if control of this technology through free software is open to everyone, according to Moglen, a distribution of power is also possible.
The widespread opinion that Eben Moglen was involved in the creation of the GNU General Public License is wrong: Moglen has only been working for the FSF since 1994, but the GPL was formulated before 1989. The authoritative author of the GNU General Public License, Richard Stallman , was legally advised by Jerry Cohen . Moglen was involved in an advisory capacity on version 3 of the GPL.
FreedomBox Foundation
In February 2011, Moglen founded the FreedomBox Foundation to design software for a very small server called FreedomBox . The FreedomBox is supposed to be an affordable personal server running only free software with an emphasis on anonymous and secure communication.
Web links
Lectures:
- Eben Moglen: Anarchism triumphs (on the demise of the protective system of intellectual property; translator: Andreas von Bonin)
- The dot communist manifesto , translation of the dot communist manifesto
- The Microsoft monopoly will soon disappear ( Memento from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Interview in the Netzeitung from June 11, 2004
- Keynote Thoughts are free from Eben Moglen to Wizards of OS 3 (as audio and video files in various formats)
- Why Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media and Why Free Media Require Free Technology , keynote lecture at re: publica 2012, Berlin
- Video: Keynote lecture: The last kilometer, the last chance . Re: publica 2016, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.5446 / 20710 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ heise online: FreedomBox Foundation for a really free Internet. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Moglen, just |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer, professor at Columbia Law School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |