The Jeff Pulver Blog: Ray Gifford Steps Down as President of the Progress and Freedom Foundation -- sure, this means Freedom and Progress for Ray, but what's in it for PFF?

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August 08, 2006

Ray Gifford Steps Down as President of the Progress and Freedom Foundation -- sure, this means Freedom and Progress for Ray, but what's in it for PFF?

Ray Gifford, my friend, occasional ally, and more occasional honorable adversary, is leaving the helm of the Progress and Freedom Foundation to run the communications, Internet and IP practice at Kamlet Shepherd Reichert in Denver.

I've enjoyed our intellectual back and forth on the great Internet and communications policy debates of our day. In fact, I just rediscovered this link from a CNBC Squawk Box discussion that Ray and I had over the merits of Net Neutrality.

Ray is a most worthy and honest thinker (even on issues in which we disagree). I often felt that if we sat down a few more times, perhaps locked in a room and denied the right to leave until we had resolved the best policy to govern the future of the Internet and communications, we could have done it with Ray's involvement. (I guess being locked in a room to hammer out the great policy issue of our day, would fit in line with the Progress and Freedom Foundation's commitment to "Progress", but perhaps being locked in a room would violate PFF's efforts to preserve and advance the "Freedom" prong of PFF's mandate). I used to joke that the entity is better labeled "Progress or Freedom, Pick One". But with Ray as its President, I was always confident PFF was striving for both.

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