“The book in your hands is about the behavior and culture of computer hackers. It collects a series of essays originally meant for programmers and technical managers. The obvious (and entirely fair) question for you, the potential reader, to ask is: “Why should I care?”
The most obvious answer to this question is that computer software is an increasingly critical factor in the world economy and in the strategic calculations of businesses. That you have opened this book at all means you are almost certainly familiar with many of today’s truisms about the information economy, the digital age, and the wired world; I will not rehearse them here. I will simply point out that any significant advance in our understanding of how to build better-quality, more reliable software has tremendous implications that are growing more tremendous by the day.”
yeas, why should i care, i really do no have any idea on what will i learn from reading this book. i know it is just a requirement for us to read it. but now that i have read the introduction of the book , the first question i encounter is :why should i care?”. may be i should care becasue this book i think will talk about things on what we are learning today. i am involved on what the book is going to talk about. i want to learn more about this technology. it has opened up a part about open source systems, i have an idea on what it is about. this was taught to us before so i have an idea. i think i will be intersted as we go on with the other chapters pf the book. i think i should care because this what is happening today, the techno;ogy exixt and is being more powerful as it develop so i should be updated on the technology.
