John Gilmore

Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder who led the organized public campaign against the 4C Entity's CPRM hard-drive copy-protection proposal at T13 in 2000–2001, sitting as a voting T13 committee member himself rather than only an outside advocate. Reported as calling the substitute "Generic Functionality" proposal that replaced IBM's withdrawn CPRM filing "a smokescreen for CPRM" — a strategically different objection from Andre Hedrick's Linux-side argument for open ratification over undocumented vendor commands.

References

• claim-ibm-withdrew-2001-cprm-ata-proposal-resubmitted-as-generic-functionality
• claim-t13-rejected-generic-functionality-proposal-april-2001-supermajority-rule
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