[Air-l] Libertarianism and Programmers / Techies

[Denise N. Rall]

Well in my vaguest memories of the olden days, I
understood the 'war' was between IBM and DEC.

I think to tease it out I would start with 'Hackers'
by Steven Levy where the libertarian ethic is
considered as part and parcel of hackers - based at
MIT on the PDP 11's.  In the PC world, it was carried
on by DOS vs. CP/M - then between IBM and pretty much
the rest of the computing world, and then along came
Apple!

Ok, early stuff is accessible at:

Frieberger, P. and M. Swaine (1999[1984]). Fire in the
valley: The making of the  personal computer.
Berkeley, CA, Osborne/McGraw-Hill.
	





 

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