"In the beginning, there was Stallman.Richard Stallman, Biblical in appearance with long beard, could be mistaken for a long-ago prophet.Self-righteous, obstreperous and outspoken Stallman and his rebellion against the centralized world of computer software, is the jumping-off point for Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, by David Bollier, one of the co-founders of Public Knowledge..."