Chris Kelty, an anthropologist starts out on a quest to interview and "study" geeks.  Along that route he has an amazing shift because of the interests of the geek culture and this opens his mind to open source. The entire trajectory of his research has shifted.  What a novel way to fall into a new study. His study emerged through a programming sub culture. Kelty speaks of a "recursive public" which to my understanding seems to be a group of people who share the idea of wanting to question and watch over their right to open, free coding. I am probably missing more of this term; however, I'll wait to our class discussion to explore it further. Recursive publics keep the internet whole.  Geeks feel that modifiability is a good thing. They also say, "Trying to take something off the internet is like trying to take pee out of a pool."  Geeks view this as a virtue, not a drawback of the internet. I was laughing when I read the analogy of the internet to the Reformation and to the Catholic church. I find the most interesting parts of Kelty's book deal with his interviews of the geeks that he basedhis study on. I find much of the information about open source to be confusing. Hopefully, as we talk more about it in class, it will become clearer to me. I never even thought of Napster before, but according to Kelty's text Napster wasn't an true open source idea.  It was used to generate profits via the stock market, I believe, If I'm understanding the text correctly. It seems as if everything comes down to code and code sharing.  I'm still working my way through the text, so I'll continue to blog on this page as my understanding/confusion increase.