Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans

by Peter Wayner

A journalist who covers technology for The New York TImes takes a close-up look at the rise and popular acceptance of Linux and explains how free software is changing the nature of business and wealth.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Computers

340 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Obviously, working in the industry all my life made this a winner for me - its a history book, and pretty much pulls together much that I thought was common knowledge, and that I didn't know. Wonder of wonders, it also mentions manuals and documentation ;).
A good book to recommend to people who can't figure out what Open Source or FSM is., and who suspect that you are really working in Millinery! Appropriately I read this on my Kindle.
Peter Wayner takes you through the history and the feelings and results of this movement - I didnt know that all software was "free" until computers became a consumer commodity and corporations discovered they could sell it...

[solidad · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used to think it mattered
I thought computers mattered
But do they? Bollocks, not compared
to what people matter.

- Chumbawamba, with a few liberties