than real life, but the Guardian is reporting that the US military had to cook the books in favour of the “American” side its victory in a recent wargame event. The “middle eastern” general used novel tactics to great success, so they forced him to quit doing some things, which let the US team win.
If nothing else
, at least there is one person I’ve had a long, social conversation with on the Booker Prize “long list”. When we met at a party a couple of years ago, Yann Martel struck me as a really nice guy who was very committed to his work.
Lessig responds
, very graciously, to Dave Winer in his weblog. “Hey, Dave, peace. Of course I don’t mean that you’ve, literally, done nothing. Obviously and of course, you’ve done great things for the movement. Nor when I criticized the copyright system was I saying anything about you. (Obviously lots of people use copyright to spread knowledge, rather than hide it. Copyleft is still copyright. And I am, as my writing should make clear, pro-copyright.)”
People are funny
. In a post today, Dave Winer wrote, in Scripting News, “I am open to supporting and working with Lessig, but we need clarification and possibly a discussion with the professor on his position re copyrights for software.” But yesterday he was trashing the guy: “To Lessig, who says we’re doing nothing, up yours.” Hardly sounds like someone who is open to working with the guy, does it? With friends like these, neither Dave nor Lessig needs many enemies. Because at base, these guys are pretty much on the same side.
Edward Felten
has recounted a bad experience with SpamCop in his new weblog, Freedom To Tinker. Interesting story about the excesses among the erstwhile “good guys” in the fight against spam. [via boingboing]
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