Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution

by Glyn Moody

He defines the hacker spirit as “playful cleverness.”

“Get it working fast” would become one of the fundamental principles of Linux development and would distinguish it from other, more careful, slower approaches.

“you know, there’s this saying that all innovation is done by lazy people; and I’m fundamentally a lazy person.

If Richard Stallman is the father of today’s free software movement, Larry Wall can be rightly considered its favorite uncle.

So from a point of view of a pure capitalist model, we’re better off leaving it open source, assuming we believe that we’re a long-term play.”