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Hackers
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Hackers

by Steven Levy
May 2010
Beginner
520 pages
15h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part Three

Chapter 14 The Carpetbaggers (New York: Pocket Books, 1961).

Chapter 14 The letter was printed in Purser’s Magazine, Winter 1981.

Chapter 15 “One participant later explained to a reporter . . .” The reporter was from Softline, another Tommervik publication, this one started with funds from the Williamses. Both Softline and Softalk provided considerable background information on the Brotherhood.

Chapter 16 “. . . towel designers . . .” See John F. Hubner and William F. Kistner, “What Went Wrong at Atari?”—an article reprinted in InfoWorld, Nov. 28, 1983, and Dec. 5, 1983. Other background on Atari from Steve Bloom’s Video Invaders (New York: Arco, 1982).

Chapter 19 “. . . interviewed in an article . . .” See Lee Gnomes, “Secrets of the Software Pirates,” Esquire, January 1982.

Appendix A “does not mean . . .” Stallman stored several “flames” (impassioned writings) on the MIT computer system, including “Essay,” “Gnuz,” and “Wiezenbomb.” The quote is from his autobiographical “Essay.”

Appendix A “that they give back all extensions . . .” From Stallman’s “Essay.”

Appendix A “It is painful for me . . .” “Essay.”

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