Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software [Paperback] Kelty, Christopher M.
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2008
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- Title
- Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software [Paperback] Kelty, Christopher M.
- Author
- Kelty, Christopher M.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822342642
- ISBN 13
- 9780822342649
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.
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Christopher M. Kelty is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.
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