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Michael Richardson is an open source and open standards consultant.
An autodidact, he wrote mail transfer agents as a teenager, and in the
1990s, after failing at high energy physics, found his calling designing and
building embedded networking products, in the security sector.
Michael is a father of a teenager, and lives in Ottawa, Canada.