EFF Honors Paid Eolas Patent Expert Witness

While The Register marvels that the 'EFF honors EFF founder with EFF award' 
[1], 
even more curious is the selection of Princeton CS Professor Ed Felten [2] to 

receive the second of three EFF Pioneer Awards [3]. 

Doesn't seem like Felten's ongoing efforts as a paid expert for Eolas [4] 
that
helped return a $521M judgment against Microsoft for infringing on a web 
plug-in patent jibe too well with the EFF's raison d'etre [5], which includes 

Patent Busting [6].

In a letter to the USPTO [7], previous Pioneer Award recipient Tim 
Berners-Lee 
termed the Eolas patent 'a substantial setback for global interoperability 
and the 
success of the open Web.'

Keep those EFF donations [8] coming, folks!
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[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/08/eff_founder_honored/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten
[3] http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_04.php#003496
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas
[5] http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=raison%20d'etre
[6] http://www.eff.org/patent/
[7] http://www.w3.org/2003/10/27-rogan.html
[8] https://secure.eff.org/