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The current state of intellectual property law is scandalous. An excellent article by Jonathan Zittrain explains why we should care about copyright, while John Gilmore's passionate polemic on copyright talks about what is wrong with copyright today. Finally, I would like to encourage scientists to learn more about the Scientific Commons as it develops. Science depends on the free exchange of ideas and data but this exchange is under attack on many fronts.

Browser Compatibility

I used to spend a great deal of time hand crafting my web pages to conform to standards. I had over 100 Mb of information up on the University of Washington servers. When I graduated, that web space was gone. I didn't feel like spending a lot of money hosting my own domain and paying for server space, so I thought that the information on my pages would just dissapear. Fortunately, just as the lights were about to go out on my old web, Google started the Google Pages with 100 Mb of free space. The site is designed to be edited in a web browser and there are several templates from which to choose. As a result, there are a lot of things that I can no longer control. Then again, it didn't take me long to transfer my site to this format and it doesn't look too bad. I have no idea if this code is compatible with all browsers like my old pages. But I can say that I did the whole thing from Firefox on a Linux box, so that says enough for me.