Software and community in the early 21st century. Not just 65 minutes of a "fat dude" talking.

From time to time [links below] I have covered the work of Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia Law School, in Fortnightly Mailing. I came across this video of a presentation by Moglen at the 2006 Plone Conference in Seattle (Plone is an Open Source content management system). Although speakers who exude such confident certainty as Moglen always set my teeth on edge, I do not agree with one viewer's sceptical comment "This has no point. It is 65:05 of this fat dude talking. I don't understand".  Worth watching if you want to do either or both of:

• marvel at someone who can speak without notes or visual aids for over an hour, developing a complex and sustained line of argument;
• hear a politically fierce exponent of the Open Source movement in full flow.

The  video should appear in the continuation post below.

 31/10/2004 - The dotCommunist Manifesto
15/12/2006 - Two contrasting views about software patents. A debate between Eben Moglen and Blackboard's Matt Small
9/9/2006 - The Web 2.0 emperor is naked. Gavin Clarke reports in The Register on the views of Tim Berners-Lee and Eben Moglen