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Title: RIP John Perry Barlow 1947-2018
Post by: trdsf on February 08, 2018, 09:11:16 AM
Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://eff.org) co-founder and Grateful Dead lyricist (http://www.dead.net/band/john-perry-barlow) John Perry Barlow has died (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42945865).  If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go be doubly devastated for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WS9DhSIWR0

Title: Re: RIP John Perry Barlow 1947-2018
Post by: Baruch on February 08, 2018, 01:07:45 PM
Seconded ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation

This is the guy I admire much more than Bill Gates ...

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
Title: Re: RIP John Perry Barlow 1947-2018
Post by: Cavebear on February 09, 2018, 01:43:13 AM
This is interesting.  Sometimes it matters who says something.  I don't give a damn about The Greatful Dead, and my initial thought was "so what"?

But I noticed that trdsf mentioned it, and it got my attention.  I didn't think I reacted to authors of posts much.  But I just did. 

I still don't care much about 'The Greatful Dead', but who did matterred slightly.