][citation needed]) is the creator of LimeWire,[3] a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Java Platform, and chief executive of the Lime Group.
At one point, Gorton was the single largest supporter of Transportation Alternatives, the New York City-based advocacy group for pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit.
[6] In 1999 he founded OpenPlans, a non-profit organization that developed GeoServer, a collaborative open source project encouraging green urban planning initiatives.
Gorton owns Tower Research Capital LLC, a financial services firm he started in 1998.
Gorton has supported Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine misinformation group run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[10]