In this Episode

A story about community, cooperation and the sharing of labor in the world of Information Technology. It begins with the story of an aged lefty, talks about the development of computer users groups and gives a brief history of the Linux operating system.

Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2007.187

About David Alan Grier

David Alan Grier is a writer and scholar on computing technologies and was President of the IEEE Computer Society in 2013. He writes for Computer magazine. You can find videos of his writings at video.dagrier.net. He has served as editor in chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, as chair of the Magazine Operations Committee and as an editorial board member of Computer. He is an associate professor of science and technology policy at George Washington University in Washington, DC, with a particular interest in policy regarding digital technology and professional societies. He can be reached at grier@computer.org.