A Quote by Eben Moglen

As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.

Eben Moglen

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Eben Moglen
American - Professor
Born: July 13, 1959

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Richard Stallman

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