Bradley M. Kuhn (born in 1973) is a free software activist from the United States. Kuhn is currently the CTO of Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and president of the Software Freedom Conservancy. He previously served the Executive Director of Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until March 2005.

Early Years

Kuhn attended Loyola Blakefield, beginning at their middle school in September 1985. He graduated in June 1991.

In September 1991, Kuhn enrolled at Loyola College in Maryland and graduated in May 1995 with a summa cum laude Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and was awarded the James D. Rozics medal for achievement in Computer Science and Phi Beta Kappa membership. As an undergraduate, he designed a student computing lab based on the GNU/Linux operating system, using the SLS distribution. Kuhn's undergraduate adviser was David Binkley.

In Fall 1995, Kuhn began graduate school in Computer Science at the University of Delaware but left the program after only one semester. During the mid-1990s, Kuhn worked in the area of software development and system administration, at various companies, such as Lucent Technologies and Westinghouse.

Graduate School

Kuhn returned to graduate school in September 1997 in the Computer Science program at the University of Cincinnati. His graduate adviser was John Franco.

Kuhn's Master's thesis focused on dynamic interoperability of free software languages, using a port of Perl to the Java Virtual Machine as an example. Larry Wall served on Kuhn's thesis committee.

Kuhn was hired to teach AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School for the 1998-1999 academic year.

Kuhn volunteered for the FSF throughout graduate school, and was hired part time as Richard Stallman's assistant in January 2000.

Kuhn was also an early and active member of the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group during this period.

Free Software Non-Profit Career

Kuhn was hired full-time to work at the FSF in late 2000, and was promoted to Executive Director in March 2001. Kuhn launched FSF's Associate Membership campaign and formalized its GPL enforcement efforts into the GPL Compliance Labs. Kuhn left the FSF in March 2005 to help Eben Moglen found the Software Freedom Law Center.

Kuhn currently serves as CTO of the Software Freedom Law Center, and as president of an affiliated organization, the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Poker

Kuhn is an avid poker player.

External links

• Kuhn's homepage
• Kuhn's technology blog at SFLC
• Kuhn's online poker journal
• A speech by Kuhn on 28 February 2007
• A 10-minute interview with Kuhn (mp3)

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