The Social Disutility of Software Ownership.

Software ownership allows the owner to restrict the distribution of software and to prevent others from reading the software's source code and building upon it. However, free software is released to users under software licenses that give them the right to read the source code, modify it, reuse it,...

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Published in:	Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 485 - 503
Main Author:	Douglas, David
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Sep2011
Subjects:	Computer software Consequentialism (Ethics) Intellectual property Open source software Compromise (Ethics)
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