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The Beyonders Probably Run Linux

posted 9 Sep 2008 (Tue) at 8:28a.m. from Señor Fish, the kitchen table

First off, this has nothing to do with the Marvel Comics Beyonder. I'm talking about the Beyonders from Iain M. Banks' awesome space-opera The Algebraist. You can read some excellent reviews elsewhere that will describe the story better than I can. Most of these focus on the Dwellers, which are a totally anarchic civilization where everything gets done by the equivalent of Wikipedia contributors or open-source programmers or the good folk of Personal Telco. But the thing that I keep coming back to is the Beyonders.

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