Author Gabriella Coleman Expands on Role of Linux in Hacker Culture (Linux.com)

Jennifer Cloer interviews Gabriella Coleman about her new book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. "To hack effectively requires the freedom to determine the shape, contour and direction of technological production. Freedom, in other words, is essential for quality. Sociologist Richard Sennet has has defined this drive in terms of “craftsmanship,” which is “an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake." It is not always easy to put this ethic into practice and open source hackers have figured out how to do so, using the right mix of law, tools and project governance to make it happen."

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