Malcolm Gladwell Challenges the Idea of "Free"

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @10:46AM from the crying-out-from-a-world-of-hurt dept.

An anonymous reader brings us another bump on the bumpy road of Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, which we discussed a week ago. Now the Times (UK) is reporting on a dustup between Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Recently Gladwell reviewed, or rather deconstructed, Anderson's book in the New Yorker. Anderson has responded with a blog post that addresses some, but by no means all, of Gladwell's criticisms, and The Times is inclined to award the match to Gladwell on points. Although their reviewer didn't notice that Gladwell, in setting up the idea of "Free" as a straw man, omitted a critical half of Stewart Brand's seminal quote.

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Re:My Time Isn't Free by calmofthestorm · 2009-06-30 10:55 · Score: 0, Troll

I'm done tinkering with Windows and am ready for something easier that makes more sense.
Linux - Because your time isn't free.

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Re:Summary?! by cthulu_mt · 2009-06-30 14:51 · Score: 0, Troll

Your mother and your sister are the same person? I don't know how that works.

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