begin Seth David Schoen quotation of Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:19:16AM -0700:
> If you can't give money, there's a lot else that would help, including
> publicity.
Moviegoers, if you give money to the MPAA, you should give money to the
EFF to make it fair.
And if you pay a certain amount per month for your Internet
connection, you should pay something for your _freedom_ connection.
Remember, Thomas Jefferson said, "The tree of liberty must be
refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants."
Oh, wait, that doesn't apply here at all. EFF isn't asking for
_blood_ or anything, just some goofy little plastic numbers on a
plastic card.
I worked at EFF for a bit, and then went to dinner with BBC developers and
had a dinner meeting at an Ethiopian restaurant (Cafe Ethiopia on
Valencia). That was delicious.
In the evening, I went to a meeting at EFF at which were many exciting
and interesting and noteworthy people. I got to meet my friend Jim Tyre,
who is fond of remarking on the many occasions when he meets friends for
the first time.
I also met a number of other people, including some of the plaintiffs in
the Felten case. It was a great time.
Faux pas: complaining about "exporting the concept of software patents
to Europe" to a woman who turned out to be a software patent lawyer. She
was a very nice software patent lawyer, though, and not easily offended,
and I do think exporting software patent law to Europe is a
bad thing.
has had a lot of interesting stuff recently.
