Talk:Rickard Falkvinge

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How can Rich Falconwing be a translation of Dick Greger Augustsson? Augustsson means "The son of August", and Greger doesn't really mean anything in Swedish. Is i maybe latin? In that case the page should say so. -Julian

I think the page meant that Rick Falconwing was a direct translation of his alias - Rickard Falkvinge, not his original name. --Somnlaut 08:23, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Rick says: Several news outlets are now running headline-size stories about me as an individual; Svenska Dagbladet will be the first to break the story tomorrow June 10, if anybody's interested in updating the bio. I won't update it myself, no matter how tempting. :-) I will share my personal motto prematurely to the SvD article, though: "If you play by the rules, you will always lose." This is because in most cases, the rules can be boiled down to "STFD & STFU": a lot of people let themselves be run by other people's expectations. If you let that happen, you become a perpetual victim of circumstances. The only way to win is to not play by the rules. -- Rickard Falkvinge

Rick says: published bio here - http://www.svd.se/dynamiskt/inrikes/did_12893601.asp, more to follow

[edit] Bio expansion?

There's a lot more material on sv, as well as in several publications. I'm seeing the English bio being used as a template for several other languages, which is understandable but frustrating as it is this short, but still don't want to edit my own bio... --Falkvinge 01:02, 5 November 2006 (UTC)


I am not an exprienced wikipedia writer, but i am happy to try and update some details. After watching the google talk video, i feel i should do something. This article really needs to be more than just a stub. Here are a few links i have found and will try to write about with refrences too later, post more if you find them. Also please let me know if they are not valid/reliable or something.

I imagine we can reference to things said in Steal This Film part 2 by Falkvinge, and other interviews. I can't speak Swedish but luckily there are a lot of English articles out there.

The statistics like the votes for Falkvinge mentioned in the Google Video, will i need to find an independent source verfiying this or can i assume the details are correct, im not sure what the wiki policy is.--Cellarmation (talk) 10:41, 15 January 2008 (UTC)