"HASTAC is very proud to have helped to sponsor and support Christopher M. Kelty's important new book TWO BITS: THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF FREE SOFTWARE [...] So what is TWO BITS about? [...] it moves between technology and the people who create those technologies, with a sophisticated awareness that 'technology' is never just a tool, a thing, but a complex of social uses, practices, and communities. TWO BITS is an ethnography of the people and practices of the Free Software developer community [...] The impact has been huge on music, film, science, education, and all forms of publishing..."
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