John Gilmore (civil rights activist)
John Gilmore (* 1955 in York , Pennsylvania ) is co-founder of the civil rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation , the " Cypher punks " - mailing list and later with Red Hat merged software company Cygnus Solutions . Gilmore is also a main contributor to the GNU project and initiator of the alt.*hierarchy in Usenet .
Gilmore is the recipient of the Free Software Foundation 's Free Software Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2009.
activities
As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Solutions, Gilmore became a multimillionaire. He was therefore able to retire early and devote himself to other interests.
Gilmore is very active in the free software field and has been a contributor to numerous GNU projects. Gilmore was the maintainer of the GNU debugger in the early 1990s and initiated the GNU radio project in 1998 . In 2005 he started the Gnash project to develop a free software player for Flash content. Outside of the GNU project founded Gilmore, the (now discontinued) FreeS / WAN project - a free implementation of IPsec to the encryption of traffic on the Internet to promote.
As an avowed advocate of libertarianism , Gilmore advocates the right to own firearms as well as the legalization of drugs and provides financial support to numerous organizations involved in this area. Due to the unconstitutional identification requirement at US airports, Gilmore sued the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Justice since 2002 .
Quotes
"We make free software affordable."
"How many of you have broken no laws this month?"
"The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it."
Web links
- John Gilmore's personal website
- From 'no-fly' lists to 'no-transportation' lists? Telepolis
- John Gilmore: What's Wrong With Copy Protection
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Gilmore (1955-). In: The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2005, p. 115 ( Google books )
- ^ Free Software Awards Announced . Free Software Foundation . March 24, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- ↑ toad.com , 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilmore, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American hacker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | York , PA, USA |