Two bits : the cultural significance of free software
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Two bits : the cultural significance of free software
（Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices）
Duke University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and index
収録内容
- Geeks and recursive publics
- Protestant reformers, polymaths, transhumanists
- The movement
- Sharing source code
- Conceiving open systems
- Writing copyright licenses
- Coordinating collaborations
- "If we succeed, we will disappear"
- Reuse, modification, and the nonexistence of norms
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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. Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet healthcare start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that bind together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and other Free Software advocates. In each case, he shows how their practices and way of life include not only the sharing of software source code but also ways of conceptualizing openness, writing copyright licenses, coordinating collaboration, and proselytizing. By exploring in detail how these practices came together as the Free Software movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, Kelty also considers how it is possible to understand the new movements emerging from Free Software: projects such as Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that creates copyright licenses, and Connexions, a project to create an online scholarly textbook commons.
目次
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. The Internet
1. Geeks and Recursive Publics 27
2. Protestant Reformers, Polymaths, Transhumanists 64
Part II. Free Software
3. The Movement 97
4. Sharing Source Code 118
5. Conceiving Open Systems 143
6. Writing Copyright Licenses 179
7. Coordinating Collaborations 210
Part III. Modulations
8. "If We Succeed, We Will Disappear" 243
9. Reuse, Modification, and the Nonexistence of Norms 269
Conclusion: The Cultural Consequences of Free Software 301
Notes 311
Bibliography 349
Index 367
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