Borrowing the words of World Wide Web inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, "Hackers for Right, We Are One Down," Gabriella Coleman pays tribute to the late Aaron Swartz in a Huffingtonpost.com article, which condemns the excessive criminal prosecution of hackers and Internet activists.

Surprisingly Free, a weekly podcast of in-depth discussions relating to technology, politics, and economics, by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, invited Gabriella Coleman this week to discuss free and open source software (F/OSS) and her new book, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton University Press, 2012). The podcast can be streamed or downloaded here.