</chapter>
<chapter id="c-preface">
<title>PREFACE</title>
+<indexterm id="idxpoguedavid" class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>Pogue, David</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
At the end of his review of my first book, Code: And Other Laws of
Cyberspace, David Pogue, a brilliant writer and author of countless
on-line have fundamentally affected "people who aren't online." There
is no switch that will insulate us from the Internet's effect.
</para>
+<indexterm startref="idxpoguedavid" class='endofrange'/>
<para>
But unlike Code, the argument here is not much about the Internet
itself. It is instead about the consequence of the Internet to a part of
Glaxo-SmithKline, IBM, Motorola, Novartis, Pfizer, and Searle.) It
included the Global Positioning System, which Ronald Reagan set free
in the early 1980s. And it included "open source and free software."
+<indexterm><primary>PLoS (Public Library of Science)</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
The aim of the meeting was to consider this wide range of projects
available for free. PLoS also sells a print version of its work, but
the copyright for the print journal does not inhibit the right of
anyone to redistribute the work for free.
+<indexterm><primary>PLoS (Public Library of Science)</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
This is one of many such efforts to restore a freedom taken for