ICANN'S RACKING UP BROWNIE POINTS - NOT

Gilmore is an entrepreneur and civil libertarian. He was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, early open source author, and co-created Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups. He's spent 30 years doing programming, hardware and software design, management, philosophy, philanthropy, and investment. Along with being a board member of EFF, he is also on the Board of the Usenix Association, CodeWeavers, and ReQuest.

"I had already been biting my tongue for a year, trying to figure out how to say what I needed to say [to ICANN Chair Vint Cerf} without losing a friend," Gilmore tells Cave. "When he was quoted defending ICANN's withholding of basic information from a duly elected member of the board of directors, I realized that there was no future for that friendship, so I might as well go ahead and say what I had been withholding."

Its a thought-provoking, thorough interview, including historical background not often recounted. Read it here.

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