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Two bits : the cultural significance of free software /
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Experimental futures.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a "recursive public"--A public organized around the ability to build, modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in the first place |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 378 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822389002 0822389002 1283022753 9781283022750 9786613022752 6613022756 0822342421 9780822342427 |
| Access: | Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff. |