It’s a fascinating story there, and there’s a lot to unpack within that. So, we have the bravery, the vision of your middle school principal. We also have this engagement with the open access movement of free information and free ideas, which is arXiv founded by Paul Ginsparg. We have your engagement with the open source software community through Perl which is for those who don’t know is that it’s a language that you can use to process text amongst other things, but do much more. And in fact, as an aside note, the first content management system I ever wrote on the web was written in Perl, MacPerl, in fact.

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