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- Category: Computer
- Author: E. Gabriella Coleman
- License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
- Pages: 264 pages
Read and download free eBook intituled Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking in format – 264 pages created by E. Gabriella Coleman.
This book is insightful and fascinating, a superbly observed picture of the motives, divisions and history of the free software and software freedom world.
Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers’ devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law.
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software – and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project – reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software (F/OSS) movement in the United States and Europe, Coding Freedom details the ethics behind hackers’ devotion to F/OSS, the social codes that guide its production, and the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law. In telling the story of the F/OSS movement, the book unfolds a broader narrative involving computing, the politics of access, and intellectual property.
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