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'''John Gilmore''' (born 1955) is an activist for freedom of speech on the net, as one of the co-founders of the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]].  He was Sun Microsystems' employee number five, the first person hired after the company founders. At Sun, he worked on both hardware and software, wrote the Forth-based bootstrap ROM code and co-authored RFC 951 defining bootp, which eventually evolved into DHCP. He was also involved in free software, porting GNU Emacs and other programs to the Sun environment. His time at Sun made John a millionaire, leaving him free to pursue other interests.


'''John Gilmore''' is probably best known as an activist for freedom of speech on the net, as one of the co-founders of the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] or EFF [http://www.eff.org].
Among his projects:
 
* co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
He was [[Sun Microsystems]]' employee number five, the first person hired after the company founders. At Sun, he worked on both hardware and software, wrote the Forth-based bootstrap ROM code and co-authored RFC 951 defining bootp, which eventually evolved into DHCP. He was also involved in free software, porting [[GNU Emacs]] and other programs to the Sun environment. His time at Sun made John a millionaire, leaving him free to pursue other interests.
* co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, a support company for free software, eventually bought by Red Hat
 
* helped start the alt.* Usenet hierarchy; John's system was the first to carry it
Among his projects since leaving Sun:
* helped start the cypherpunks; John's site hosted the original mailing list
* co-founder of the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]]
* project leader for FreeSWAN | FreeS/WAN, a Linux implementation of IPsec and opportunistic encryption
* co-founder of [[Cygnus Solutions]], a support company for free software, eventually bought by [[Red Hat]]
* sponsor of the EFF Data_Encryption_Standard#DES.27s_Achilles.27_heel:_key_length|DES Cracker project
* project leader for [[FreeSWAN | FreeS/WAN]], a Linux implementation of [[IPsec]] and [[opportunistic encryption]]
* campaign to [http://www.toad.com/gnu/census.html boycott the US census], since government has historically mis-used information
* sponsor of the EFF [[DES Cracker]] project
* campaign to boycott the US census, since government has historically mis-used information
* two lawsuits against US government for demanding ID to travel, which John says is unconstitutional, [http://freetotravel.org/ Gilmore v. Ashcroft] & [http://papersplease.org/gilmore/ Gilmore v. Gonzales]
* two lawsuits against US government for demanding ID to travel, which John says is unconstitutional, [http://freetotravel.org/ Gilmore v. Ashcroft] & [http://papersplease.org/gilmore/ Gilmore v. Gonzales]
* various free software projects, currently including [[GNU radio]] and the [[Gnash]] flash player  
* wrote pdtar, which eventually became GNU tar
* primary maintainer of the GNU debugger for some years in the 90s
* various other free software projects, currently including GNU radio and the Gnash flash player
* work on [http://www.toad.com/drugs/index.html drug policy reform]
   
   
John's maintains a [http://www.toad.com/ web site] with a number of things on it, including a personal [http://www.toad.com/gnu/ home page].
John maintains a [http://www.toad.com/ web site] with a number of things on it, including a personal [http://www.toad.com/gnu/ home page]. His toad.com may be the only personal domain listed among the [http://www.whoisd.com/oldestcom.php 100 oldest .com domains].

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John Gilmore (born 1955) is an activist for freedom of speech on the net, as one of the co-founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was Sun Microsystems' employee number five, the first person hired after the company founders. At Sun, he worked on both hardware and software, wrote the Forth-based bootstrap ROM code and co-authored RFC 951 defining bootp, which eventually evolved into DHCP. He was also involved in free software, porting GNU Emacs and other programs to the Sun environment. His time at Sun made John a millionaire, leaving him free to pursue other interests.

Among his projects:

  • co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, a support company for free software, eventually bought by Red Hat
  • helped start the alt.* Usenet hierarchy; John's system was the first to carry it
  • helped start the cypherpunks; John's site hosted the original mailing list
  • project leader for FreeSWAN | FreeS/WAN, a Linux implementation of IPsec and opportunistic encryption
  • sponsor of the EFF Data_Encryption_Standard#DES.27s_Achilles.27_heel:_key_length|DES Cracker project
  • campaign to boycott the US census, since government has historically mis-used information
  • two lawsuits against US government for demanding ID to travel, which John says is unconstitutional, Gilmore v. Ashcroft & Gilmore v. Gonzales
  • wrote pdtar, which eventually became GNU tar
  • primary maintainer of the GNU debugger for some years in the 90s
  • various other free software projects, currently including GNU radio and the Gnash flash player
  • work on drug policy reform

John maintains a web site with a number of things on it, including a personal home page. His toad.com may be the only personal domain listed among the 100 oldest .com domains.

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