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In case you weren't aware, Linus is on Google+. Here's a recent post : On Open Enterprise blog .

Back in the mists of time - I'm talking about 2000 here - when free software was still viewed by many as a rather exotic idea, I publ...

In 2001, I published a history of free software, called "Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution." One of the...

One key property of printed books is that it is very hard to modify them. Digital books, by contrast, are trivially easy to re-write - prov...

The careers of few people have been so intertwined with the history of open source as that of Larry Augustin. He was even present when the t...

Talking of commons, I was reading David Bollier's Viral Spiral recently, probably the best book about the rise of the commons as a new...

I received a review copy of Steven Levy's seminal book Hackers back in the 1980s, but never read it. I did, though, keep it, because i...

Cambridge University is celebrating its 800th anniversary in 2009. The official history tells the tale of the buildings; but what about the ...

There are few commercial programs whose history is more intertwined with the rise of free software than Nokia's Qt toolkit, originally c...

Most people in the free software world know that before he wrote Linux, Linus was using the Minix operating system. To run it, he had to acq...

Good news: Irving Wladawsky-Berger , the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one o...

Here's a typical Moody text I never wrote: A brief explanation of what the free culture movement is and the various factors that led to...

On Open Enterprise blog .

For some years I have contemplated – and even planned out in some detail - a kind of follow-up to Rebel Code , which would look at the ways ...

During the writing of Rebel Code I had the privilege of talking to nearly all of the world's top hackers. Among those, Donald Knuth is...

Ha!

Slashdot points to an interesting list of first 100 registered domains. But I doubt whether even the most deep-dyed supporter of free sof...

Via GigaOM , I came across a link to this love-letter to Facebook: Thinking about it, I've rarely used a service that has brought me so...

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for: Rebel Code ....in Catalan : Una història apassionant que ens explica com un grup d'...

Good news: a Catalan translation of Rebel Code - Codi Rebel , no less - is hurtling towards a bookshop near you. Well, it is if you live ...