I Left Apple In April Of 1984,

I Got Bitten By The Free Software Bug In February Of 1998 Around The Time Of The Mozilla Announcement.

It's [programming] The Only Job I Can Think Of Where I Get To Be Both An Engineer And An Artist. There's An Incredible, Rigorous, Technical Element To It, Which I Like Because You Have To Do Very Precise Thinking. On The Other Hand, It Has A Wildly Creative Side Where The Boundaries Of Imagination Are The Only Real Limitation.

You Show Me A Great Program And I'll Show You A Passionate Individual Somewhere Behind It.

Apple Was Our Benefactor At Starting General Magic, But About A Year Later Decided They Would Rather Be General Magic And Tried To Make Us Blink Out Of Existence... Which We Eventually Did, But It Took A Few Years.

I Left General Magic In 1996 To Become An Internet Hobbyist - Got A T-1 Line To My House. At One Point I Had All Four Food Banks Of The Bay Area Hosted From This House Here.