John Gilmore (activist)

John Gilmore ( born 1955 in York, Pennsylvania) is co-founder of the civil rights organization Electronic Frontier Foundation, the " Cypher Punks " mailing list and later merged with Red Hat software company Cygnus Solutions. Gilmore, a principal collaborator of the GNU project and is also the initiator of the " old. * " Hierarchy on Usenet.

Gilmore has won the right conferred by the Free Software Foundation Free Software Awards for the promotion of free software ( Advancement of Free Software ) in 2009.

Activities

As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Solutions was Gilmore multimillionaire. He could therefore early to retire and move on to other interests.

Gilmore is very active in the field of free software and contributor to many GNU projects. So Gilmore was at the beginning of the nineties the maintainer of the GNU debugger and initiated in 1998, the GNU Radio project. In 2005 he founded the Gnash project to life, to develop a free software player for Flash content. Outside of the GNU Project Gilmore founded the (now discontinued) FreeS / WAN project - a free implementation of IPsec to promote the encryption of data traffic on the Internet.

As a professed representative of the libertarianism itself Gilmore sets for the right to firearms ownership as well as one for the legalization of drugs and provides numerous organizations dedicated to the effect financial support. Because of the unconstitutional by Gilmore's view ID required at U.S. airports sued Gilmore since 2002, among other things, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Justice.

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. "