Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software - Couverture rigide

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Chopra, Samir; Dexter, Scott D.

 
9780415978934: Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software
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ISBN 10 : 0415978939 ISBN 13 : 9780415978934
Editeur : Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Software is more than a set of instructions for computers: it enables (and disables) political imperatives and policies. Nowhere is the potential for radical social and political change more apparent than in the practice and movement known as "free software." Free software makes the knowledge and innovation of its creators publicly available. This liberation of code--celebrated in free software's explicatory slogan "Think free speech, not free beer"--is the foundation, for example, of the Linux phenomenon.

Decoding Liberation provides a synoptic perspective on the relationships between free software and freedom. Focusing on five main themes--the emancipatory potential of technology, social liberties, the facilitation of creativity, the objectivity of computing as scientific practice, and the role of software in a cyborg world--the authors ask: What are the freedoms of free software, and how are they manifested? This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how free software promises to transform not only technology but society as well.

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À propos de l?auteur

Samir Chopra is Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science and Philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Scott Dexter is Professor of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415978939
ISBN 13 
9780415978934
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
232
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9780415876780: Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)

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ISBN 10 :  0415876788 ISBN 13 :  9780415876780
Editeur : Routledge, 2010
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