---
title: "John Gilmore"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "John Gilmore"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Electronic Frontier Foundation","CPRM","T13","digital-rights advocacy"]
---


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 Reported as calling the substitute "Generic Functionality" proposal that replaced IBM's withdrawn CPRM filing "a smokescreen for CPRM" — a strategically different objection from [[Andre Hedrick]]'s Linux-side argument for open ratification over undocumented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]]
- Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-30-what-exactly-did-the-4c-entitys-cprm-proposal.md