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July 13, 2000 by Michael Boyle

work at all in this space. Mostly a question of boundaries, really – I wouldn’t want anyone to mistake my personal ramblings for anything coming from the company (not that it’s a huge threat, but still). But I will say this – the transition from a very small company to a larger company is fascinating to watch, and to be involved in. As someone who’d never worked in an office, per se, before this job, I was always quite disdainful of bureaucracy and structure. Now, though, I’m learning the value in adding such structure, as long as it’s done well. And it’s actually pretty fun, trying to dream up ways of doing things with the creativity and vitality of the old days, but much more efficiently.

I’m very happy to state in public that my co-workers, all 130 of them, are among the smartest, most talented groups of people I’ve known. It’s quite amazing, actually.

Tags: EFF, Personal, Space, Test

The corruption of Col. James Hiett

July 5, 2000 by Michael Boyle

The corruption of Col. James Hiett in Salon is an excellent story about the nonsense the US is engaging in in Colombia. Excellent in that it provokes a lot of important questions – questions that I don’t think the US political system is currently strong enough to deal with effectively. Nor would the Canadian system, mind you – I’m not taking a swipe at our neighbours to the South here.

Tags: EFF, Salon

I watched

June 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

a documentary tonight called The Source. It was very very good in many ways, and although to a great extent I’ve gotten over my young man’s fascination with Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the rest, I still believe them to be absolutely central to a lot of what we consider “contemporary” North American culture – including “digital culture”. You can draw a straight line, for instance, from Kerouac to the EFF, and it’s not that long a line (Kerouac — Cassidy — Garcia/Weir — Barlow).

Rabbit Rabbit

Tags: Culture, EFF

Chipping away:

April 5, 2000 by Michael Boyle

a US federal appeals court has overturned a previous ruling and found that source code enjoys First Amendment protection. Of course this means that it is protected speech – which means that certain Crypto regs aren’t constitutional. Story via Wired News.

Tags: Copyfight, EFF

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