Talk:Eben Moglen

message: Hey, I am new here. I just added a Russian article on the subj and I am wondering what hoops I have to jump through if I want it cross-linked with all other languages. Thanks much! melikamp 06:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you mean having the Russian version linked with all versions in other languages: Some people here run bots that automatically update interwiki links. They will automatically pick up the change you made and propagate it to other language versions. That can take a while, though. Rl 06:55, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian article

message: Removed this from the article since it's redundant and could be interpreted as slightly POV:
:Moglen believes the GNU General Public License is not a contract.
This is silly; of course he does.  It says so right in the GPL itself, it is also the FSF's official stance, and Eben is their General Counsel.  Also, to call it a "belief" seems to be trying to characterize it as a controversial or unexpected position; i.e. POV.
--83.226.8.35 08:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stance?

message: This person will be a remote presenter at Wikimania, and as such we can expect this article to get more traffic than usual. Now would be a great time improve if possible, and make sure everything is accurate! Brassratgirl 20:17, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: please improve this article!

message: When was Moglen born? This is completely missing from the article. --Haakon 17:10, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Born date?

message: Basically this only covers the activities with and the pro-FSF stance. Surely there must be more to this person than one prejudiced viewpoint?211.10.18.77 10:23, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that this is not a very well-rounded article, but that's just the way development works.  Some aspects of some topics take longer to finish than others.  Help if you can. Gronky 11:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

text: His FSF and related activities are the reasons for his notability - they should fill the bulk of the article. And we don't have much else, eg. biography-wise, as I understand it. Moreover, I don't think you can classify his views as prejudiced - they are quite well argued and are certainly more than just one simple viewpoint. Lundse (talk) 10:52, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unencyclopedic

message: Lquilter just (02:47, 29 October 2006) added "Category:Lawyers".  But some time ago, on 23:28, 3 June 2005, Gronky removed the category "American Lawyers", saying "he's not one".  Who is and isn’t a lawyer, anyway?  Moglen recently seemed to confirm being an "attorney":
:[Leo Laporte:]
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:So, are you, you’re an attorney, Eben?
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:[Eben Moglen:]
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:Yes, that’s correct, I went to law school and got a history Ph.D. after a career as a computer programming language designer.
So is he or isn’t he a lawyer?  --193.11.177.69 06:19, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry I didn't check for that history. He's a law professor at Columbia; he was admitted to the NY bar in 1988 with bar registration # 2218014.  (See NY State Bar Assn search at http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/attorney/AttorneyDetails?attorneyId=5452766 .) So he is an attorney. The article itself says he's general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, so as general counsel he's a lawyer.   -- LQ 13:17, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I see, thank you.  Please write this information into the article, even if just as a reference.  Interestingly, that page you referenced says “Next Registration: Jul 2006”; does this mean he’s missed renewing something and isn’t a lawyer anymore?  Also, wouldn’t “Category:American lawyers” be better than “Category:Lawyers”?  --193.11.177.69 08:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I added the bar search as a reference; the other material is basically already included.  ... Registration "July 2006" means that he was due to re-register July 2006. He might be a little late, or they might not have updated their database.  You wouldn't be disbarred right away for being a little late on your bar dues. Individual bars might eventually do disciplinary proceedings for bar dues, but one would have to check with the state bar association. Not sure. --LQ 16:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I just checked, it now says "Next Registration: Jul 2008".  --193.11.177.69 22:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lawyer?

message: I've uploaded a newer, high-resolution photo which I took at Eben's lecture in Edinburgh at the end of June.  If people think it is better then they may want to crop and use that image instead of, or as well as the current image. Karora 07:31, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New Photo

message: This article has turned into a very long list of external links. Of course, Wikipedia is not a collection of links and I suspect this articles has sort of gone off in the wrong direction. I would very much like to see this list survive (it's fantastically detailed) but probably not on this article page. mako (talk•contribs) 17:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We hit this problem on the Richard Stallman page about a year ago.  The solution was to move the long lists of links to wikiquote.  So when someone has the time and motivation, the links in this article could be moved to http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen Gronky 01:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've trimmed it extensively (there were judgements calls but I tended to choose his major and most influential works and speeches and was biased towards links from his homepage or for large reputable sources). I have copied the removed links below. You, or whoever else is interested, should try to move those into Wikiquote or elsewhere. mako (talk•contribs) 13:56, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wikiquote is not a collection of links, either. bd2412 T 20:22, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with BD2412 and I understand q:WQ:NOT says so too. We collect quotes, not links. --Aphaia (talk) 09:49, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I removed the links since they now all live happily on Wikisource --193.11.177.69 (talk) 23:26, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Speeches and Such

message: Pretty amazing.  Sorry Eben! 128.59.181.20 (talk) 04:30, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-01/Technology_report#Wikimedia_Foundation_office_switching_to_Google_Apps Wikimedia Foundation office switching to Google Apps]

message: How should we pronounce his name anyway? --Do.you.sina (talk) 21:06, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronounciation

message: Moglen is not a communist, even though he wrote "The dotCommunist Manifesto."  Here are a couple of sources:
I'm going to delete the "communist" mention, and also the Jewish American mention since it doesn't belong in the "Professional biography" section.
AndyBloch 19:12, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. I have never seen any source where Moglen identify himself as "a communist", "a capitalist" or jewish. Belorn (talk) 23:42, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a "communist"