‘The Hacker Ethic’ a dry look at an irreverent culture

From Cox News Service: “For computer hackers, the Linux operating system – invented in a dorm room, open and free to the world, a challenge to commercial Goliaths – is a fairy tale, and its inventor Linus Torvalds is their hero.

      So Torvalds is the perfect person to write the prologue and serve as a case study in “The Hacker Ethic” (Random House, $24.95), an interesting albeit dry look into the arcane world of people who get their grins writing computer code.”