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"Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kely on the issues covered by his book Two Bits, before Kelty’s joining of the UCLA staff in August 2008. This is a really grand interview that poses all the right questions and issues, and I may engage with it further in the future, but here is just the text of the interview itself..." --

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software

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