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From Open-Source Coder To Feeling Exploited
- Paul Le Roux created powerful open-source disk-encryption software and released it for free.
- He later felt exploited when others commercialized his work and he remained broke.
RX Limited: A Resilient Online Pharmacy Empire
- In 2004 Le Roux launched RX Limited to sell painkillers online with minimal checks.
- He built call centers and a payments infrastructure that made the network resilient and profitable.
Infrastructure Over Content For Resilience
- Le Roux created a domain-registrar layer (AB Systems) to mint limitless domains and resist takedowns.
- That structural move made his illicit web network effectively impossible to disable quickly.