"One hundred years from now, Richard and a couple of
other people are going to deserve more than a
footnote," says Moglen. "They're going to be viewed as
the main line of the story."
The "couple other people" Moglen nominates for future
textbook chapters include John Gilmore, Stallman's GPL
advisor and future founder of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, and Theodor Holm Nelson, a.k.a. Ted Nelson,
author of the 1982 book, Literary Machines . Moglen
says Stallman, Nelson, and Gilmore each stand out in
historically significant, nonoverlapping ways. He
credits Nelson, commonly considered to have coined the
term "hypertext," for identifying the predicament of
information ownership in the digital age. Gilmore and
Stallman, meanwhile, earn notable credit for
identifying the negative political effects of
information control and building organizations-the
Electronic Frontier Foundation in the case of Gilmore
and the Free Software Foundation in the case of
Stallman-to counteract those effects.
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