This book was not what I was expecting, which was entirely my own fault because I assumed that everyone interested in the same thing as me is interested in it in the same way that I am. So I was expecting more theory and less story. But, as it turns out, Coleman's ethnography of hackers was so interesting in its own right that, despite not quite getting what I expected out of it, I enjoyed what I got.
There were particular elements that spoke to me, though, especially her focus on the relationship between hacker ideology and 21st century problems of privacy, individuality and the communal. As an introduction to the free/ open source software movement, this book is wonderful and as an exploration of the questions that can be asked in the realm of free (as in speech) software and labor and the politics thereof, I though Coleman did an excellent job.
On an unrelated note, I applaud this new trend of critical thinkers working on issues of freedom and copyleft releasing their ebooks under the Creative Commons license. Not only because it makes it easier for those of us looking to build on their work to afford to, but also because it sets a standard for valuing the work done by the humanities under the same umbrella as open source.