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...created the application, education and entertainment programs for personal computers. Typical was Mitch Kapor, a former transcendental-meditation teacher, who gave us the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3, which ensured the success of IBM's Apple-imitating PC. Like most computer pioneers, Kapor is still active. His Electronic Frontier Foundation, which he co- founded with a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, lobbies successfully in Washington for civil rights in cyberspace. In the years since Levy's book, a fourth generation of revolutionaries has come to power. Still abiding by the Hacker Ethic, these tens of thousands of netheads have...
Among those expected to guest lecture are John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Tom Lemberg, chief counsel for Lotus Development, and Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT media...
...proposed law could turn every online-service provider into an info cop. "Exon's bill would be the end of the Internet as we know it," says Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates, a New York City-based media-research firm. Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, argues that constitutional guarantees apply in the new media just as they apply in the old-no matter how offensive the material. "The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because no one ever tries to ban the other kind," he says...
...judging from the traffic on the Usenet newsgroup called alt.fan.bill-gates (but hardly a fan club), the last person in the world to whom Internet users would willingly yield control is the chairman of Microsoft. "The Net has a culture," says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Everyone who goes there takes on some of it. And that culture has a strong immune response to Bill Gates and Microsoft...
...plan by major airlines to add as much as $40 to every roundtrip ticket to thebeleaguered new Denver International Airportis causing a major political headache for the city's mayor, who is running for reelection, reportsTIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury. United, American and Frontier announced the fee increases over the weekend, to cover extraordinarily high operating costs at the new airport. United Airlines runs 70 percent of the flights to and from Denver. It said that it upped the fee to meet the $195 million in rent and landing fees it will have to pay at the new airport...