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[[File:Ashish-Gulhati.jpg|thumb|100px|Ashish Gulhati]]
'''Ashish Gulhati''' (born 1973 in [[New Delhi]], [[India]]) author,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Greg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gJrmszNHQV4C&pg=PA161&dq=Ashish+Gulhati#q=Ashish%20Gulhati|title=Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think|last2=Oram|first2=Andy|date=2007-06-26|publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc."|isbn=978-0-596-55467-5|language=en}}</ref> philosopher, notable for being one of India's first online [[activist]]s and open source hackers.

==Open source==
As one of [[India]]'s original [[Hacker (programmer subculture)|hackers]], Ashish has worked to raise awareness about [[FOSS]] in India. In 1993 he co-founded The X Group, the first company to offer professional commercial support for [[open-source software]] in India, with [https://web.archive.org/web/20060411175528/http://kandalaya.org/ Raj Mathur].

He is an [[Open-source model|open source]] developer and the author of several extensions to the [[Perl|Perl programming language]], including PerlVision, Crypt::GPG, Crypt::Schnorr::AuthSign, Persistence::Database::SQL and Persistence::Object::Postgres.<ref>[http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol2_2/tpj0202-0006.html The Perl Journal, Summer 1997]</ref><ref>[http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0001.html The Perl Journal, Fall 2000]</ref>

==Articles==
His articles and columns in [[PCQuest]] and Dataquest magazines in 1993 and 1994 were among the first in the mainstream Indian computing press to inform thousands of readers about alternative operating systems, [[Unix]], [[Linux]], [[open-source software]], [[Email]], the [[Internet]] and the [[World Wide Web]], years before Internet access was commercially available in India. These early articles [https://web.archive.org/web/20061108014319/http://netropolis.org/hash/blog.cgi/About/CV.html#publications] formed an important part of the [[PCQuest#PCQ Linux Initiative|PCQuest Linux Initiative]] that resulted in close to a million Linux CD-ROMs being distributed.

==BBS==
In pre-Internet [[India]], Ashish created and operated the Primal Scream [[Bulletin Board System]], and created the country's first inter-city [[Fidonet]] echo. Soon after the launch of Internet services in India, Ashish co-founded Sense/NET, a very popular ISP, with [[Vipul Ved Prakash]]. Prakash as of 2018 serves as a Director of Engineering at [[Apple Inc.|Apple]].<ref>[http://w2.eff.org/Infrastructure/Foreign_and_local/India/india_online.article Wiring into the World]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Web development==
In 1997 Ashish created the award-winning website for [https://web.archive.org/web/19991005221811/http://connectmagazine.com/Top500site/Top500pg.html Connect Magazine], the first Indian magazine with an online edition.

In 1998, he created the website and online publishing engine for [http://www.american-reporter.com/ The American Reporter], the world's first and oldest original daily Internet newspaper, and winner of the landmark [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] case, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060603211016/http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/Am_Reporter_v_DoJ/ Shea v Reno].

==Security and privacy==
In 1999, he was involved with [[Laissez Faire City]], where he developed Laissez Faire City's [[OpenPGP]] compatible messaging engine, and also deployed secure wireless links for Laissez-Faire City's consulate in Costa Rica.

Since 2000, he has been actively involved in various security and privacy-related efforts

== References ==

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070325234103/http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/Foreign_and_local/India/india_online.article India Today]
* [http://netropolis.org/hash/images/ET.jpg The Economic Times]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.01/eword.html?pg=2 Wired Magazine]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010523102501/http://www.american-reporter.com/credits.html The American Reporter]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19991005221811/http://connectmagazine.com/Top500site/Top500pg.html Connect Magazine]
* [http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20020304/computes1.shtml Express Computer India]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061014135114/http://www.netropolis.org/hash/pcq/PCQ0893-Coherent.pdf PCQuest Aug '93 Unix Article]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071022220632/http://netropolis.org/hash/pcq/PCQ0993-Linux.pdf PCQuest Sep '93 Linux Article]

==External links==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070409091054/http://netropolis.org/hash/ - Blog
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110721181526/http://thefree.in/ - Forum for Rights to Electronic Expression

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