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ThunderCast #2: Mozilla's Mike Conley & The Retro Internet Retreat

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The Importance of Open Source Development

In 2008, when the economy was in a tailspin, he decided to go to grad school. He failed out of electrical and computer engineering but got good enough at programming that he pivoted over to computer science. After six months working as a contractor for Mozilla messaging, he learned about open source development on IRC. "I wanted to learn how I like miraculously not blown myself up by messing around with my guitar amplifier"

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