A protest by New York University students seeking negotiations with school officials over financial and academic issues ended Friday after almost 40 hours, with students leaving a dining room that had been barricaded and a school spokesman announcing the suspensions of 18 of the participants pending a disciplinary review.
Well I suppose now everyone will whine about how they were unfairly punished. I always thought part of a protests effect was showing that it was worth enduring the punishment to get something changed. We’ll see how this turns out…
In a 1993 interview with Meta magazine, Linus Torvalds himself name-checked their O.S. “If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux,” he said, “Linux would probably never have happened.”
As The Pirate Bay trial wraps up its third day, the defendants claim that they should have a “safe harbor” from all the alleged infringement in the case, since it was all initiated by users. The Bay, they claim, is just like Google or YouTube, and its admins are schooling the opposition in PR and tactics.
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