John Gilmore

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John Gilmore

Bio

From Wikipedia: [1]

"John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project.

As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems and founder of Cygnus Support, he accumulated sufficient wealth to take an early retirement and pursue other interests. He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger in the early 90s, initiating the GNU Radio project in 1998, and the Gnash project in December 2005 to create a free software player for Shockwave Flash movies. Outside of the GNU project he founded the FreeS/WAN project, an implementation of IPsec, to promote the encryption of Internet traffic."

Formulated Gilmore's Law about censorship and the internet.


Gilmore's Law

Gillmore's Law = “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.