Mike Godwin hired by Wikimedia Foundation 84
Raul654 writes "Mike Godwin, first legal counsel for the EFF who is best known for coining Godwin's law, has been hired as the legal counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation."
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
Re:Qualifications (Score:5, Interesting)
EFF won the Steve Jackson Games case and Reno versus ACLU. Both cases were won while I was staff counsel at EFF. Just saying.
(I should add that I'm proud of EFF's work since then.)
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh let me go first: Sexton't law: "Make up a snappy one line for alt.flame and Mike Godwin will steal it for his own".
Check the dates:
http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/b5
Re:He'd make awesome council (Score:3, Interesting)
My purpose in the original incantation of same ( http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/b5
And what happens? You schmucks play right into his hands and incant the demon himself by chanting his name over and over again. Arize from the depts of legal hell oh Mike Godwin. Take these souls that have pleged their dark hearts to you.
I know Mike Godwin. I like Mike Godwin. Mike is a friend of mine. But he's still a dirty thief.
Oh, the horror.
Richard Sexton
Froup this, bitch.
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/usenet/ [vrx.net]
Re:Qualifications (Score:2, Interesting)
Don't worry, I'm over the whole sink thing.
By the way, Glen is now my neighbor in Silver Spring!
--Mike