“Do you have a support network of gurus and hackers to call on
that lets you proxy some of that out?”
“Not really. What I do have is a carefully honed skill for
encountering a strange subject and learning what questions to ask
in a short time period. I always like to quote A. J. Liebling, a
good old-fashioned journalist – he liked to say, “I’m better than
anyone who is faster than me, and faster than anyone who is
better.” Words to live by.”
“The word on the street is that you’re writing a book on Open
Source. True?”
“I am writing a book about free software – a history of the
movement that delves into the cultural, political, and economic
implications of it all. Probably too ambitious for my own
good.“