Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter

Decoding Liberation (eBook, ePUB)

The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship between the free software movement and freedom. Focusing on five main themes-the emancipatory potential of technology, social liberties, the facilitation of creativity, the objectivity of computing as a 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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135864866
• Artikelnr.: 38259078

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction 1. Free Software and Political Economy 2. The Ethics
of Free Software 3. Free Software and the Aesthetics of Code 4. Free
Software and the Scientific Practice of Computer Science 5. Free Software
and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World Bibliography