Open and Shut?: The Basement Interviews

A short tale about the challenges and opportunities facing scribblers in the age of the Internet, and six rules exemplified.

Richard Poynder has conducted interviews with Richard Stallman, Eric Reymond, Lawrence Lessig (and others). While this is a lot to read (each interview is about 35 pages), they are very interesting and reveal a lot about the personalities of the involved. (Links to the single interviews are at the bottom of the article, and the interview transcripts are available as pdf at the bottom of each interview article.

This is good reading stuff, if you, like me, are in bed with 38.6Ã