Half my life spent in open source
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Half a life in open source becomes concrete: early experiments with AOL include flooding forms to get thousands of AOL CDs, VB scripts that send Win32 key events to chat windows and getting kicked off the service, then moving to a local ISP with a public directory and building a site using a Perl auto-generator to avoid hand‑writing pages. The narrative lists concrete tradeoffs, accidental leaks of proprietary roadmap details, and a chance encounter with Randall Schwartz.
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