I saw an item pop up in my feed reader from the Freedom Now blog. It took me a moment to remember that this is Eben Moglen’s blog. I added it a while back but he hasn’t posted since April 2007, so the title looked unfamiliar in my reader’s “A” list.
I’m happy to see that he intends to start posting again. Eben is right there with Richard Stallman in providing inspiration for a free society, where all knowledge and information is freely available to everyone. There in his post are the kind of bold and sweeping claims I enjoy finding in his writing and speeches:
The movement I now realize it’s clear I’m giving my life to is on the verge of irreversibly changing humanity. I may yet live to see the world I have been dreaming of since I was a boy.
And then again, you think at fifty, maybe I won’t. But billions of people now living are going to live in a world in which …
