Linux free book

FREE FOR ALL: HOW LINUX AND THE FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT UNDERCUT THE HIGH-TECH TITANS

Peter Wayner HarperCollins, $26.

To techie adherents of the open-source movement, free software is a way of life. For the rest of us, Wayner, a computer scientist and journalist, has charted the history of hackers who devote their spare time to writing code they make available to anyone free of charge. Their efforts, he insists, will soon change computing forever.

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