John Gilmore
@johngilmore
Internet activist, software programmer and contributor to the GNU project
Building Cygnus Solutions as Founder · United States
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Key facts
- Born
- 1955
About
John Gilmore is an engineer and programmer, born in 1955 in York.
In context
Cygnus Solutions was founded in 1989 and closed in 2000, after 11 years. Among the 50 other software industry companies founded in the 1980s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 13 years, so this one closed earlier than most.
Named alongside
- David Henkel-WallaceFounder
- Michael TiemannFounder
Contribution
John's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.