Code is speech: legal tinkering, expertise, and protest among free and open source software developers.

In this essay, I examine the channels through which Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) developers reconfigure central tenets of the liberal tradition—and the meanings of both freedom and speech—to defend against efforts to constrain their productive autonomy. I demonstrate how F/OSS developers c...

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Published in:	Cultural Anthropology Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 420 - 455
Main Author:	Coleman, Gabriella
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell August 2009
Subjects:	Open source software Freedom of speech Intellectual property
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost