His skill was social skills.
But he was all of a piece, too. Different as they were
in every other respect, that the person I most now
compare him to in that sense, all of a piece, compact,
made of the substance that makes stars, all the way
through, is Stallman. In an effort to drive that image
home, Moglen reflects on a shared moment in the spring
of 2000. The success of the VA Linux IPO was still
resonating in the business media, and a half dozen free
software-related issues were swimming through the news.
Surrounded by a swirling hurricane of issues and
stories each begging for comment, Moglen recalls
sitting down for lunch with Stallman and feeling like a
castaway dropped into the eye of the storm. For the
next hour, he says, the conversation calmly revolved
around a single topic: strengthening the GPL.
"We were sitting there talking about what we were going
to do about some problems in Eastern Europe and what we
were going to do when the problem of the ownership of
content began to threaten free software," Moglen
recalls.
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