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Eben Moglen: Microsoft Remains a Very Dangerous Party

In this seemingly-new interview with ComputerWorld's Todd Weiss, Eben Moglen pretty much explains why Microsoft is the biggest threat to Free software.

What do you see as the biggest danger to open-source software today? On the one hand, there's still a locus of resistance. Microsoft still maintains strongly the view that its business model, which depends upon concealing source code from users, is a viable and important and indeed necessary model. And so as long as a company that sells a billion dollars a week in software is in that sense fundamentally still trying to [fight] the free way of doing things, Microsoft remains a very dangerous party.


Here is a video that was added to YouTube just a couple of days ago. In this video, Eben explains how introducing royalties with Novell's kind 'help', the freedom of software gets jeopardised (in all senses of the word "free").



With apologies to Professor Moglen about the use of Flash. We do try to use Ogg every time it is possible. We tried locating the Ogg version of this video in the FSF's Web site, to no avail. Here is another noteworthy video about this subject.



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