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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 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.

Table Of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
The Internet
Geeks and Recursive Publics 27
Protestant Reformers, Polymaths, Transhumanists 64
Free Software
The Movement 97
Sharing Source Code 118
Conceiving Open Systems 143
Writing Copyright Licenses 179
Coordinating Collaborations 210
Modulations
"If We Succeed, We Will Disappear" 243
Reuse, Modification, and the Nonexistence of Norms 269
Conclusion: The Cultural Consequences of Free Software 301
Notes 311
Bibliography 349
Index 367

Product Details

* ISBN: 0822342642
* ISBN-13: 9780822342649
* Format: Paperback, 368pp
* Publisher: Duke University Press
* Pub. Date: May 2008

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