Eric Allman — American Scientist

Eric Paul Allman is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc... (wikipedia)

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.