Hello Everyone,

Boy it's been a long time since my last post!

Has anyone read the book "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen?

It’s not like an Internet text (Although I’m sure you might find some excerpts) it’s an actual book from the bookstore…and it’s not like a “how to hack” kind of book… it’s actually a sociological view of the “Hacker Ethic”. It makes a lot of comparisons to Weber’s essay on the protestant work ethic (Perhaps some of you might have heard about him in your SOC101 classes).

Anyways, the prologue was written by Linus Torvalds (I hope that name sounds familiar) and is REALLY good. And in fact if you do a little background reading on Weber and some of the other sociology topics discussed in the book, it will help you appreciate what the rest of the book has to say.

Happy Hunting!!

Simon Templer