Xerox Sux

[Phillip H. Zakas]

is a legal defense fund in place for felten/dean/wallach?  if so, anyone
have the contact info for it?
phillip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks at Algebra.COM
> [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at Algebra.COM]On Behalf Of John Young
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:01 PM
> To: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: Xerox Sux
>
>
>
> A Wall Street Journal article today on the SDMI/DCMA lawsuit
> by Ed Felten, et al, includes this nasty:
>
>   "The decision to file the lawsuit hasn't been without consequences.
>   Dr. Drew Dean is scheduled to resign from the Xerox research
>   center tomorrow and says, without elaborating, that the resignation
>   is 'related' to the DMCA lawsuit. A Xerox spokesman says that
>   the legal challenge is 'not something the corporation wished to
>   be involved in' but declined to comment further."
>
> Drew, like Dan Wallach, was a grad student of Felten's and the
> Xerox job was his first, I believe.
>
> Will Princeton boot Felten, will Rice boot Wallach? Depends on
> the courage of the trustees to resist their buddies' pressure,
> as half-dead Xerox could not.
>
> All hail the principled scientists, buck up trustees.