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Eben Moglen is a professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, and serves pro bono as General Counsel for Free Software Foundation. He is noteworthy for co-writing the GNU licenses with Richard Stallman. The most famous of these licenses is the GNU General Public License.

Moglen received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1980, where he won the Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism. In 1985, he received a master's degree in philosophy and a JD from Yale University.

Moglen was a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall ( 1986- 87 term).

He received a PhD in history from Yale University in 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic..

Moglen serves as a director of Public Patent FoundationThe Public Patent Foundation or PUBPAT is a nonprofit organization that seeks to limit perceived abuse of the U. Patent system. It was founded in 2003. As of 2004, there was growing concern by many technology professionals over the number of patents grant.

His opinion on free softwareThis article refers to free software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. For software available free of charge, see Freeware. The term free software refers to software which, once obtained, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. is that it's a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free society in which we are surrounded by and depending on technical devices. Only if controlling these devices is open to all via free software, power can be balanced equally.

Moglen's Metaphorical Corollary to Faraday's LawFaraday's law of induction gives the relation between the rate of change of the magnetic flux through the area enclosed by a closed loop and the electric field induced along the loop: : where E is the induced electric field, d s is an infinitesimal elemen is the idea that the Internet works like inductionElectromagnetic induction is the production of an electrical potential difference (or voltage) across a conductor situated in a changing magnetic field. Michael Faraday was the first to describe this phenomenon mathematically: he found that the electromot on the humans minds of the planet. Hence Moglen's phrase "Resist the resistance!".

In 2003 he received the EFF Pioneer AwardThe EFF Pioneer Award is an annual prize for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers. Until 1998 it was presented at a ceremony in Washington, D. but is now usually presented at CFP. Winners # 19.

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The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?


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