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User:Lee Daniel Crocker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am
a computer programmer, poker player, amateur philosopher (specifically a devotee of Karl Popper), and
a dilettante at just about everything else. My major usefulness here was that I was the primary author of the current MediaWiki software. For the last few years since America has gone poker-crazy, I've been earning my living at the table and
haven't had much time for programming or
Wiki writing, though I do still drop in here regularly. My personal server is
currently undergoing a major cleanup, so my personal pages aren't up at the moment. My email (lee AT piclab DOT com) is
working.
I am
not a lawyer. I have
studied the law and
follow intellectual property law in particular as an
involved citizen, and
have strong opinions about it
(as I do about everything else). Indeed, those opinions are
a major reason for my involvement here. I often express those opinions here, as is
my right under the first amendment. These opinions should not be construed as legal advice; you rely on my interpretations of the law at your own peril. If you want a definitive legal opinion, you should seek the advice of a licensed professional (most of whom will probably not know any more
about the issue than I do, but who will have
lobbied for laws protecting their monopoly and
requiring me to post silly disclaimers like this).
Because I am
skeptical of the value of intellectual property law in general and copyrights in particular, I explicitly place all creative works original to me in the public domain. If you see an
article here that looks like it
was primarily written by me and
you wish to use it
in a way not permitted by the GNU Free Documentation License, contact me. I may have
a public domain version containing only my work which I will happily give you. I intend to put much of that on my personal wiki.
It seems to be a tradition here to list pages one has created or
edited. I've long since lost track of how many pages I've edited, and
many of the pages I created or
overhauled no longer bear any resemblance to my original text. Also, many of my pages no longer list me in their history because I edited them in the early days of Wikipedia when edit histories were periodically deleted. But to give some sense of what I'm interested in and
what my style of writing is, I list below a few pages which still contain a majority of their text written by me:
