Henry Poole is a technologist and social entrepreneur, CEO of
CivicActions and Board Member of the
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985. The organisation supports the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed ...
.
He co-founded one of the first digital agencies, Vivid Studios, in 1993. That year, he served as technical editor for the book, ''Demystifying Multimedia''. In 1994, he led a project to study the social interactions and use of technology for the
WELL
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community. In 1995, his firm managed the online launch of Microsoft
Windows 95
Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft and the first of its Windows 9x family of operating systems, released to manufacturing on July 14, 1995, and generally to retail on August 24, 1995. Windows 95 merged ...
(the largest online technology product introduction of this time).
In 2000, Poole joined as CEO of French Linux publisher
MandrakeSoft. In 2001, Poole founded the first openSAAS enterprise, Affero, Inc. and in 2002, published the
GNU Affero General Public License
The GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a free, copyleft license published by the Free Software Foundation in November 2007, and based on the GNU GPL version 3 and the ''Affero General Public License'' (non-GNU).
It is intended fo ...
, version 1. Poole joined the board of the Free Software Foundation in December 2002. In 2003, Poole managed the digital team for Kucinich for US President and in 2004, founded government digital services firm CivicActions. In May 2006, Poole and the Free Software Foundation launched the anti-DRM campaign,
Defective by Design
Defective by Design (DBD) is a grassroots anti-digital rights management (DRM) initiative by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and CivicActions. Launched in 2006, DBD believes that DRM (which they call "digital ''restrictions'' management") m ...
.
A software freedom activist, Poole has organized fundraisers for
Dmitry Sklyarov and the Free Software Foundation.
References
External links
Henry Poole CivicActions Bio
Berkeley Technophiles Launch Campaign Software RevolutionPresidential Campaigning at the Edge
The Affero GPL: Closing the Distribution LoopholeFamed Berkeley Home Hosts Kucinich E-campaignLinuxPlanet Interview: Trust Unlimited
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Members of the Free Software Foundation board of directors
GNU people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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