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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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Eric Raymond

Eric Raymond is co-founder and president of the Open Source Initiative, whose goal is to build bridges between the hacker community and business with the aim of spreading open-source development methods. Until recently, he sat on the Board of Directors of VA Linux Systems, the leading Linux hardware and systems company.

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The law is an ass

Entertainment companies ought to come up with technology that is sound and accomplishes what they want without coercion. But some of the problems they want to solve are impossible. Eric Raymond talks to Solana Larsen.

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