Awesome talk by Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves. Liberation by software | Eben Moglen. Johannes Gutenberg (1400-68), inventor of printing, examines a page from his first printing press – the technology that enabled both the Reformation and the Englightenment. Photograph: Hulton/Getty For the last half-thousand years, ever since there has been a press, the press has had a tendency to marry itself to power, willingly or otherwise. The existence of the printing press in western Europe destroyed the unity of Christendom, in the intellectual, political and moral revolution we call the Reformation. But the European states learned as the primary lesson of the Reformation the necessity of censorship: power controlled the press almost everywhere for hundreds of years. In the few places where the European press was not so controlled, it fuelled the intellectual, political and moral revolution we call the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, which taught us to believe, as Thomas Jefferson said, "When the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
" Eben Moglen Live in NYC on Friday: Freedom in the Cloud. By Joe Brockmeier - Feb. 03, 2010Comments (0) If you're fortunate enough to live near New York City, you can catch Eben Moglen at the NY Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-NY) on Friday, talking about "Freedom in the Cloud. " Specifically, Moglen will be talking about the implications of "cloud computing" on software freedom, privacy, and security.
Cloud computing does pose quite a few challenges for software freedom. In addition to software licensing, users have to worry about privacy, data portability, and more. Just having the source is no longer enough, when users do have the source. Software freedom in the cloud is possible, however. It's licensed under the AGPL v3. This isn't a new topic for the SFLC or Moglen. Sponsored by ISOC-NY, NYU ACM, and the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Clinic, the event is open to the public. Share Your Comments. Eben Moglen - The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselveson Personal Democracy Forum 2011. Eben Moglen Creating Freedom Box for Private Online Storage and Communications - Digits. Eben Moglen Interview: Freedom Box.
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