FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
John Gilmore donates US$15,000 to the Freenet Project
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 17th August, 2006 - John Gilmore, one of the
founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks
mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions, has donated US$15,000 to the
Freenet Project, to support the ongoing development of the Freenet
software.
This donation will ensure the continued employment of Freenet's full-
time software developer, Matthew Toseland and other expenses. Matthew
has been working for Freenet full time for the last 4 years, funded
entirely by donations to the project.
In April 2006 the Freenet Project released the first alpha version of
Freenet 0.7, a new approach to anonymous peer-to-peer adopting a
"scalable darknet" architecture, designed to offer a new level of
privacy and security for those using the software, while addressing a
number of other long-standing issues with Freenet. This donation will
support the project as it works towards a beta release of Freenet
0.7, improving the ease of use, speed, and security of the software.
The donation came from John Gilmore's donor advised fund at The San
Francisco Foundation.
For further information please see
http://freenetproject.org/
ABOUT THE FREENET PROJECT
Freenet is a 501c3 non-profit corporation whose goal is the
development of free software that allows users to publish and obtain
information on the Internet without fear of censorship.
CONTACT:
Ian Clarke
Freenet Project Inc
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