Glyn Moody is a writer, journalist, and blogger. After receiving two degrees in maths, he started writing about computers in 1982, the Internet in 1994, and free software in 1995. In August 1997, his feature “The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was” appeared in Wired magazine; his history of free software and open source, “Rebel Code”, was published by Penguin in 2001. “Digital Code of Life”, a book about the genomic software that powers everything alive, and the battle to keep it free, came out in 2004. He has been blogging for five years, and is @glynmoody on Twitter and identi.ca.