Software Freedom Law Center Job Opening
The Software Freedom Law Center is seeking a staff attorney. What’s interesting about the ad is the rather clever “bozo filter” they’ve included:
Email resumes with “Staff Attorney” in the subject line to ravicher at softwarefreedom dot org. Resumes will be accepted through no other means and resumes submitted in “.doc” or any other non-free or non-open format will not be considered.
If you can’t tell free file formats from non-free file formats, or if you can’t produce your resume in one of those formats, you are not qualified for this job. I’m not applying, but if I were, I’d have to make a tough decision between sending my resume in TeX source and sending in a GPL’d obfuscated C program that displays my resume when run.
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I wonder if they’d consider PDF or RTF as “open” or “free”… obviously these formats have corporate sponsors (Adobe and MS) but their specifications are open and there are many free (as in both brew and no shackles) software that can read/produce them. I guess I would send LaTeX source with a Makefile that would let them produce DVI, PDF, RTF or HTML. Too bad I’m just half a lawyer and not all of a lawyer.
Comment by joe — August 26, 2005 @ 6:14 pm
What about opendoc format? Or straight ASCII?
Makes me glad I’m not a lawyer.
Comment by Art K — September 7, 2005 @ 8:06 am
Of course, ASCII, OpenDoc, or HTML would work fine, and those would be the reasonable choices. I was thinking of how to show off.
Comment by Joe Gratz — September 7, 2005 @ 8:26 am