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11	11	In order to become better informed about copyright issues regarding open source—and these legal questions generally—I have currently been admitted to and have started my participation in the wonderful edX/Harvard course CopyrightX. This is, in essence, a Harvard Law course that is being made freely available to a limited, but worldwide, group of students who will actively participate in weekly live-streaming discussions (as well as the usual lectures, readings, etc. associated with a course). My hope is that this will enable me to participate more deeply and meaningfully in open source advocacy, and promotion of free culture and a free society.
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13		-My goal as an OSI Director is firm up the legal precision and acuity with which OSI addresses intellectual property issues facing FLOSS projects. We live in a world with a rapidly evolving and deeply flawed legal regime governing IP, and OSI has to be both careful and strident to protect the rights of developers, computer users, and world citizens generally.
	13	+My goal as an OSI Director is to firm up the legal precision and acuity with which OSI addresses intellectual property issues facing FLOSS projects. We live in a world with a rapidly evolving and deeply flawed legal regime governing IP, and OSI has to be both careful and strident to protect the rights of developers, computer users, and world citizens generally.
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15	15	I welcome voters to review my hundreds of technical publications, my programming language book published by Addison Wesley, my doctoral research in political philosophy, my writings on intellectual property and human freedom, and other miscellaneous works at [[http:~~/~~/gnosis.cx/publish/>>url:http://gnosis.cx/publish/]]. I am also delighted to answer any further questions at my email address: [[mertz@gnosis.cx>>mailto:mertz@gnosis.cx]].