Per Oscar Swartz (December 1, 1959) is a

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entrepreneur, writer and blogger. Oscar Swartz was born in

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. He is the great-grandson of the former Swedish Prime Minister

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, and a second cousin of the publisher Eva Swartz and the journalist Richard Swartz. He has a doctorate in economics and

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from the

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. In 1994 he founded

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, the first independent

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in Sweden. He left the company in 2004 after some internal disputes. Since July 2005 he runs the blog ''Texplorer'' where he covers issues such as information technology, freedom and

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on the Internet,

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and intellectual property. He has authored two reports, published by the Swedish liberal free market think tank

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, on these issues. He is a member of the Swedish

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. Swartz is openly gay. In 1995 he co-founded the magazine '' QX'', which is today the largest magazine for

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people in Scandinavia.

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Oscar Swartz – Texplorer
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