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In the 1970s, I had a special opportunity. I worked at the AI lab at MIT. And there, we had our own time sharing system, which was free software. We would share with anybody. In fact, we were delighted anytime when somebody was interested in any part of it. We were delighted anytime somebody wanted to join us in using it and then help develop it. And so I had the opportunity to read all these different programs that were part of the system, and make changes in them. And by doing this over and over again, for years, I learnt to be a good programmer. I had to go to one particular place on earth, to have this opportunity, which was very unusual, very rare. Today any PC running the GNU plus Linux operating system, will offer you this opportunity. Every school in India that has a computer can offer its students the same opportunity, that I could only get at MIT.