Talk:John Gilmore (activist)

message: Does anyone have a document to cite to confirm that Gosling is an Emacs user?  Thanks. Gronky 01:13, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why are you asking about Gosling on the Gilmore article? —mako (talk•contribs) 18:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Gosling is an emacs IMPLEMENTOR (he wrote "Gosling Emacs" aka "gosmacs"). So it can be presumed that he actually used the software he wrote. But I'm also curious: why are you asking about Gosling on Gilmore's talk page, and why don't you look it up yourself? It's certainly mentioned in the James Gosling article. Isn't it easier to look something up in wikipedia yourself than ask people to do it for you? Xardox (talk) 17:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "I use Emacs" quote anyone?

message: Is he the same John Gilmore who is managing Robert Kennedy JR's presidential campaign?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.20.157.211 (talk) 13:56, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFK Jr? 

message: I renamed the page from John Gilmore (advocate) to John Gilmore (activist) because "advocate" sounded more like a lawyer to me and it seems that almost everyone (including the other JG's) advocates for one cause or another. This JG is interesting because he's a political activist. I've adjusted the links in ever article that was linking to this one. —mako (talk•contribs) 18:58, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advocate/Activist 

message: Is bill gates listed as a microsoft activist? Is that homo from apple listed as one? No? So why the fuck is Mr Gilmore?
Bullshit article from those who are afraid of freedom, ie the wikicommies.
:Well there are other John Gilmore's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore so something was needed to differentiate I'm sure if he found it offensive he would change it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.21.94 (talk) 15:50, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I too wonder why he's listed as an activist. I think technologist or computer engineer would probably be better terms. He's not known for his activism as much as he is for his work with tech. The activism IS significant, but in many ways it's a growth from his work with computers. I mean, we don't label Bruce Schneier as an activist, and he speaks out against security theatre quite often.Garglesnargle (talk) 16:45, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

text: Quite the contrary, John is well known for his activism including funding software systems that increase privacy & other goals he has.  He also refuses to fly, as he finds the TSA too intrusive.  — Lentower (talk) 17:27, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the fuck is he listed as an activist? 

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