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+# The Spectre of Free Information - Interview with Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History - FRONTLINE
+
+Prof. Eben Moglen is Professor of Law and Legal History at the
+Columbia University Law School, Founder Director of the Software
+Freedom Law Centre and General Counsel for the Free Software
+Foundation, Boston. Free Software is software that gives users the
+freedom to use on any number of computers, to share with others, to
+study and modify and to redistribute the modified
+version. Prof. Moglen was involved in developing version 3 of the GNU
+General Public Licene (the licence with which most Free Software is
+distributed), along with Richard M. Stallman, the founder of the Free
+Software Movement. He has had a rather unusual career. At 16, he
+helped write the first networked email system. He later worked on
+designing programming languages at IBM, but left the company
+in 1984. He did a history degree and then a law degree, and ended up
+teaching and writing about the roots of intellectual property law.
+
+A friendly and jovial person, Prof. Moglen has very interesting ideas
+that he has expressed through his numerous lectures across the world
+and in his writings. During his public speech at Thiruvananthapuram on
+Free Software and Free Culture, he said that all patent laws,
+including the ones in the US, are archaic. Speaking in New Delhi in
+2006, he remarked: "Anything that is worth copying is worth sharing."
+He has devised what he calls the Correlative Corollary to Faraday's
+Law: take the community, wind the net around it and spin the world,
+and you get information flowing through the network. Another
+interesting work from him is the dotCommunist Manifesto about which
+also he speaks in this interview which was done when Prof. Moglen was
+in India in June 2007. He speaks about Free Software, Free Culture and
+their economic and political impact in this excerpt from the
+interview.
+
+**Question**: The Free Software movement started in United
+States. What is the status of FS there? How popular is FS there?
+
+**Prof. Moglen**: Well, popular, I think, is a little hard to judge
+for two reasons. First because we have people who are using it and
+don't know that they are using it. It's inside their enterprises
+and/or it's inside their appliances. And they are not aware of
+it. Second, we have the people who know that they are using it and who
+have purchased the product or downloaded the product without
+necessarily accounting for all their copies. So what we can say is
+that Free Software is far more popular in the United States than what
+the United States is aware. [Read More (archived)][artcl]
+
+[arctl]: https://web.archive.org/web/20071027165534/http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2420/stories/20071019507610000.htm