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Standing on the Corner with Pamphlets in Hand

Welcome to my street corner. I recently listened to a speech by Eben Moglen called “Freedom and the Future of the Net: Why We Win.” It’s good stuff. Very interesting. I unfortunately haven’t been able to find a transcript of it, but as a value-added service to the MTF community, I transcribed this, where he is discussing how the “artificially large person” (e.g. Christina Aguilera) is manufactured for the purpose of selling things, and:

But all of this depends upon denial. Exclusion. You can’t have it unless you pay. And it’s not actually the

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Run, Freedom, Run!

Several years ago I saw the unfortunately titled musical Urinetown at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis.

I loved it. I thought it was funny and had some good songs. One of my favorites is Run, Freedom, Run! Other good ones include Mr. Cladwell and Don’t be the Bunny, but it’s Freedom that inspires me to write about one of the things that I’m trying to do in my life and chronicle on this web site: make the move from the Microsoft Windows operating system to GNU/Linux, and in general to move from proprietary software to …