Fun book/biography of the story around the birth of a new operating system (well a derivative operating system) that was critical to the history of computer software.

The most important impact of the Linux story is the potential productivity of a motivated decentralised force that have a shared objective under an open software development mind set. The socioeconomic impact of this success is still playing out today and will continue to do so with all sorts of opportunities and contradictory failures.

Google would have never existed if it wasn’t for this predecessor example of impact from open technology. And yet this is somehow paradoxical because it flies in the face of what the free software movement has tried to achieve.

Paraphrasing Brand:
- Free information wants to be owned.
- Owned information wants to be free.

Abd these two sides wrap around eachother...