# Open Source

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/open-source
- Date: 2024-06-20
- Tags: opensource

[How free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life [LWN.net]](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/)

> Philip Hazel was 51 when he began the [Exim](https://www.exim.org/) message transfer agent (MTA) project in 1995, which led to the [Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions](https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2) (PCRE) project in 1998. At 80, he's maintained PCRE, and its successor PCRE2, for more than 27 years.