Eben Moglen Quotes

#1. If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

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#2. The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.

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#3. As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

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#4. There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way ... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.

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#5. Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.

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#6. The great moral question of the 21st 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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#7. Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

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