Gabriella Coleman, the anthropologist whose first book, Coding Freedom, explained hacking culture better than any book before or since; and whose second book, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, told the inside story of Anonymous with technical and social brilliance, appeared on the Theory of Everything podcast (MP3) to discuss the ways that free software hackers and the more business-friendly open source world have fought, reconciled and fought again.
As with all of Coleman's expositions, this interview gets to the human, ethical core of the technical discussion, fusing the technological and the anthropological in a way that makes it clear that they should never really be discussed separately from one another.
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