Two Bits : The Cultural Significance of Free Software /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelty, Christopher M., 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Informationsgesellschaft
Open Source
Information society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Logiciels libres > Aspect social.
Societe informatisee.
Open source software > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (396 pages).
ISBN:9780822389002

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