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I very much enjoyed this book. Mr Moody writes well and entertainingly about the origins of the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Movement. The historic characters in the drama are well drawn and engaging. Time and again I’d remark ‘So, that’s where he/it came from!’ as Moody traced the origin of Apache or Samba or Alan Cox. I was very much reminded of the excellent history of the PC ‘Fire in the Valley’ that traces the origins of the PC industry to where we find it today. I would recommend Rebel Code to someone interested in GNU/Linux and the inner workings of how it came to be. This is a book for the tech historian, not necessarily the hacker.
If I were to fault the book it would be that is is 3 years old. As such it misses the effect of the tech bust/recession on the Linux movement, and the growing successes it has achieved recently from the third world (e.g. China’s Red Flag distribution) to supercomputing. I can only hope Mr. Moody will correct this fault with another edition.
Rating: 4
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