"The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics" - Ken Auletta

Summary: "The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics" is an article by Ken Auletta, published in early 2008 in The New Yorker. In this article, Auletta discusses Google's new presence in the political arena to an audience curious about Google's growing influence. Although Google...

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The Hacker Manifesto

Summary The Hacker Manifesto is a piece written by Adam L. Beberg, who's information can be found by clicking on the small icon at the bottom of the manifesto. an example of our old topic of hypertext. This piece attempts to explain what a hacker really is by providing definitions of a hacker through hypertext (the word 'hacker'). Beberg enlightens the world, so to speak, on the mindset of a hacker, and how society has come to look down upon such people. Beberg seems to think that the world is quite...

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Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto"

Summary In his article, "The GNU Manifesto", Richard Stallman makes the argument in favor of free software. By free software, he means software that doesn't need to be copyrighted or that people don't need "permission to use" (550). He explains that his intent by saying free software was not to be interpreted as "copies of GNU should always be distributed at little or no charge" (550). Later in the manifesto he explains ways to make a profit by providing the service of distribution, and that the...

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