birth_place parents birth_date image article_title name occupation
near toronto , ontario , canada charles templeton , sylvia murphy 20 april 1960 bradtempletonji1.jpg brad templeton
 brad templeton software architect , entrepreneur
brad templeton

brad templeton -lrb- born near toronto on april 20 , 1960 -rrb- is a software architect , civil rights advocate , and entrepreneur .
he graduated from the university of waterloo .
templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of usenet , and in 1989 founded clarinet communications corporation , which used usenet protocols to distribute news articles , one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing .
in his `` net history in brief '' post , he coined the phrase `` imminent death of net predicted '' .
he also founded looking glass software -lrb- not the same company as looking glass studios -rrb- , and was involved in the development of a number of software packages .
he was the chairman of the board of the electronic frontier foundation for ten years until february 2010 , when he relinquished his tenure to john buckman .
brad remains on the board of the eff .
he created the usenet newsgroup rec.humor.funny in 1987 and moderated it from 1987 to 1992 .
to commodore users he 's probably best known for power -lrb- a c compiler -rrb- and the assembler pal .
templeton is widely known in the internet and legal community for writing about political and social issues related to computing and networks .
one of the most frequently-cited works on internet copyright law is his `` 10 big myths of copyright explained '' .
