Mr. ZDTV Larry Wangberg is the easygoing CEO of ZDTV, the fledgling 24-hour high tech cable channel. Wangberg recalls similar criticisms when MTV and Nickelodeon were launched.
Some pioneers break ground in the research lab.
Cindy Cohn, the lead counsel for University of Illinois professor Daniel Bernstein and California Lawyer's Lawyer of the Year, is doing it in the courtroom. Federal judges will soon rule on Bernstein v. US Department of Justice, deciding whether the First Amendment applies to the encryption code that Bernstein posted online. But with Internet law there are so few cases on the books. Hacker-Philosopher Eric Raymond is known as the editor of The New Hacker's Dictionary. The document's argument for open software development convinced Jim Barksdale to release Netscape's browser source code to the world.