Henri Poole
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Henri Poole is a political campaign technologist and founder/director of CivicActions, serves on the Board of the Free Software Foundation and Affero, Inc.
(In 2002, Affero published the Affero General Public License (AGPL) which is a the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) with a web services provision added. Like the GNU GPL, the AGPL was written by Eben Moglen.) As co-founder and CEO of Vivid Studios, Poole is considered a pioneer in the Internet services industry. In 1993, 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 community. In 1995, he worked for Microsoft during the launch of Windows 95 (the worlds largest technology product introduction in history on the Internet).
From May of 2000 through April 2001, Poole was the CEO of French GNU/Linux publisher MandrakeSoft.
A software activist, Poole has organized fundraisers for Dmitry Sklyarov and the Free Software Foundation.
External links
- Presidential Campaigning at the Edge
- CivicActions website
- The Affero GPL: Closing the Distribution Loophole
- Famed Berkeley Home Hosts Kucinich E-campaign
- LinuxPlanet Interview: Trust Unlimited
- Technical Entrepreneur Profile - Henri Poole: Bridging Worlds
- Financial Times: Building communities on the internet
- BusinessWeek: Yankee, We Want You. Yankee, Go Home
- Scoop Media: Where is the Money