{"id":371,"date":"2003-11-09T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-09T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/politics\/electoral\/john_edwards.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"john_edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/11\/09\/john_edwards","title":{"rendered":"John Edwards on Lessig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presidential Candidate John Edwards<\/a>·<\/a> has been a guest blogger this week on Larry Lessig’s weblog<\/a>·<\/a>. I hadn’t given him much consideration before, but I was actually impressed by his understanding of some important intellectual property issues (particularly the problems with the pharmaceutical patent regime<\/a>·<\/a>. In his final entry<\/a>·<\/a>, he squarely addressed the importance of open source licensing: <\/p>\n

When a government official stepped forward and opposed an international forum on open source, that was a mistake—just as it would be a mistake to oppose a discussion of proprietary licensing. As I said, the role of government is to establish a level playing field, not pick a winner. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It probably helps that he represents the home state of Red Hat<\/a>·<\/a>, but so far he’s the only candidate who seems to know anything about the Free Software movement. <\/p>\n

Howard Dean was also a guest blogger back in July<\/a>·<\/a>, and Dennis Kucinich in August<\/a>·<\/a>. Both Dean<\/a>·<\/a> and Kucinich<\/a> have “personal” blogs as well.<\/a> Although it’s all a little gimmicky, much of the blog writing has a slightly more sophisticated flavour than what you see in the debates, campaign speeches, and TV ads. This can only be a good thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presidential Candidate John Edwards· has been a guest blogger this week on Larry Lessig’s weblog·. I hadn’t given him much consideration before, but I was actually impressed by his understanding of some important intellectual property issues (particularly the problems with the pharmaceutical patent regime·. In his final entry·, he squarely addressed the importance of open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}