Acknowledgments
I will be forever grateful for the encouragement and assistance of Michael Einschlag, my mentor, my law partner, and my friend of many years. He's the most brilliant attorney I know, and his counsel about patent and contract law through many drafts of this book was invaluable.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. I had the good fortune to learn about open source from the leaders who created it. I want to thank them all but can only name a few special ones who influenced me and taught me about software freedom and open source: Bruce Perens, Peter Deutsch, Eric Raymond, Russell Nelson, Brian Behlendorf, Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, Danese Cooper, Guido van Rossum, and Michael Tiemann. Anyone who knows these players knows that we ...
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