Career
Fred Moore was also active in disarmament and social justice activism, as well as nonviolent civil disobedience and direct actions. As a University of California Berkeley freshman in 1959, he held a two-day hunger strike on campus against the compulsory Reserve Officers" Training Corps (Reserve Officers Training Corps) program, attracting media attention and influencing later activists of the student movement of the 1960s. After the 1980 reinstitution of draft registration in the United States, Moore became a leader in the draft resistance movement, for a time editing the newspaper, Resistance News.
Moore died in an automobile accident in 1997.
Moore is prominently featured in the books What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff and Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. Both highlight Moore"s contribution to the democratization of the Internet and access to computer technology.
Markoff wrote in 2000 that Moore"s "original communitarian vision of the power of personal computers has re-emerged to challenge the computer industry"s status quo, in the form of the free software movement.".