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Benjamin Mako Hill: A rebel with many open source causes

By Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, Network World, 02/03/2010
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Benjamin 'Mako' Hill, MITJoe 'Zonker' Brockmeier speaks with Benjamin 'Mako' Hill, researcher at MIT's Center for Future Civic Media and the Sloan School of Management, as well as board member, contributor and advisor on open source projects from Ubuntu to Wikipedia. Mako talks about the increase in the use of "forking" to help software develop and how it changed the way communities work. Other topics: The computer in your pocket, the rise of mobile computing, and the concept of the 'anti-feature. (12:32)

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