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EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board (opens in new tab)

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68 pointsthecoffman4y ago12 comments

12 comments

RichEO4y ago

The spin from the EFF is, I suppose, to be expected but a little disappointing.

Does anyone know what actually happened where?

throwaway42204y ago

Ok the contrary I found it very refreshing when they say they haven’t “seen eye-to-eye” in the first paragraph

gumby4y ago

That’s been true since forever

There's nothing on his site about it, but it is interesting to browse.

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

Reads like he would be a good friend of Stallman. No record of defending friends with shady friends though.

gumby4y ago

Yes, John is a very good friend of RMS’s.

gego4y ago

...not eye to eye with Gilmore? Thanks for gnu tar, liberating bsd, parts of gnu make, gbd, curating binutils and gcc with Cygnus, helping in the crypto wars, frees/wan, boots, gnu radio, one laptop per child... so it might be hard to be eye to eye me thinks...

Sounds like there's more to this

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