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Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture, Routledge, New York, 2008, ix–211 pp, $95.00, ISBN 978-0415978934

Author: Benjamin Mako Hill

Published in: Minds and Machines | Issue 2/2008

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The last half-decade has seen scores of scholarly papers and several books from a wide variety of academic disciplines attempting to explain the significance of free and open source software (FOSS) and the communities that create it. Samir Chopra and Scott D. Dexter’s Decoding Liberation offers a unique, important, and sympathetic examination. Its descriptive work is especially relevant, well supported, and refreshing. Building on this strong foundation, it offers a set of thought-provoking, if at times controversial, arguments in favor of software freedom and openness that challenges both supporters and opponents of the free software and open source movements. …

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Title: Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software
Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture, Routledge, New York, 2008, ix–211 pp, $95.00, ISBN 978-0415978934
Author: Benjamin Mako Hill
Publication date: 01-06-2008
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Minds and Machines / Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-008-9101-y

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