Eben Moglen Quotes

Patents which conserve an edge in a rapidly changing market, may have uses for companies such as IBM. But patents which inhibit your customer's ability to achieve their own goals or to contribute to jointly build technology or community build technology are not useful to a company such as IBM wishes to be.

- Eben Moglen

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Version 2 has now been running for [nearly] 15 years without substantial modification. It [GPL 2] has successfully been used to go from a world in which free software was a very marginal community to one in which everyone, everywhere is aware of it. - Eben Moglen

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The right to speak PGP is the right to speak Navajo. - Eben Moglen