How free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life.

Hazel had informed a colleague, Piete Brooks, that he was working on Exim. Brooks wanted to try it out, but Hazel demurred because he had not written any documentation. (This may be the first known case of a programmer refusing to distribute undocumented code...) Brooks response was "I don't want the documentation, I want the code." Even so, Hazel insisted on writing a first cut of the Exim manual before packaging up the code and sending it off to meet its fate.