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Monday, November 25, 2002

Dean of Harvard Law School to step down at the end of this academic year. Dean of Harvard Law School to step down at the end of this academic year: A press release that Harvard Law School issued today advises that "Robert C. Clark will conclude his service as Dean of Harvard Law School at the end of the 2002-03 academic year, he announced today. [How Appealing]
3:24:29 PM

Linux 2.6 on Horizon-Eweek - The next major release of the Linux kernel is on track for the first half of next year, with improvements in its ability to handle large amounts of memory and throughput.
Scalability enhancements, as well, will add to the appeal of the latest kernel, Version 2.6, for enterprise customers, according to Linus Torvalds, the creator and top programmer for the Linux kernel, in an e-mail exchange last week with eWeek.
2:31:33 PM

Woman sentenced in multimillion-dollar software sting - Computerworld - A 52-year-old Taiwanese woman who pleaded no contest in one of the U.S.'s largest software piracy cases was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday, one of the longest sentences ever in the U.S. for a case involving software piracy.
2:26:17 PM

HP in good hands with the law. Hewlett-Packard plans to announce Monday that it has racked up $50 million in deals with law firms in recent weeks, supplying gear to a number of them. [CNET News.com]
2:14:07 PM

Lessig's Challenge: Are You Up To It?

Lessig's Challenge: Are You Up To It?
Posted by Hemos on Monday November 25, @08:00AM
from the put-your-money-where-his-mouth-his dept.
Eloquence writes "At the 2002 Open Source Conference, law professor and cyberactivist Larry Lessig, last prominently featured here because of the Eldred case, asked some poignant questions: 'How many people have given to [the] EFF more money than they have given to their local telecom to give them shitty DSL service? How many people have given more money to [the] EFF than they give each year to support the monopoly--to support the other side?' Luke Francl has interpreted these questions as a challenge, and decided to chronicle both his donations to good causes and his less voluntary payments to 'the media oligarchy' on this page: Lessig's Challenge. This is a good idea if others imitate it: If these pages become interlinked with each other, not only can they motivate us and let us track our progress, they may also help us to keep each other up to date about 'good causes' -- there's more than the EFF, after all. With Harry Potter in theatres and Lord of the Rings before us, should 'nerds' also be thinking about supporting those who fight for our rights to, say, play DVDs on an open-source OS?"

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2:03:56 PM