Culture's Open Sources: Software, Copyright, and Cultural Critique.
Part of a special section on anthropological research on free software or open source software in widely disparate social spaces and global locations. In this introduction, it is noted that the contributing articles reveal the significant relevance of the people and practices explored therein to ma...
| Published in: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 499 - 507 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Summer 2004
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