Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

by Scott D. Dexter, Samir Chopra, Scott D Dexter, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415978939
• ISBN13: 9780415978934
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"