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Tue, 11 Mar 2003

Mitchell Kapor resigns from Groove board #
Yesterday, the NY Times ran this article (registration required... blah!) that Mitchell Kapor resigned from the board of Groove Networks due to the fact that DARPA was using Groove software as a component of their antiterrorist surveillance software.

I have always had a great deal of respect for Mr. Kapor. He is a strong proponent of Open Source software (including his Open Source Applications Foundation) as well as his support of privacy and freedom through his founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I think his resignation is more symbolic than anything else, as Groove is really Ray Ozzie's (a former Lotus cohort) company. But at least he had the resolve to do it. |/open-source|