Freedom imagined: Morality and aesthetics in open source software design

Ethnos

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-71

  Leach, James ^a   Nafus, Dawn ^b   Krieger, Bernhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Intel Corporation   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethics; Freedom; Progress; Social form; Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650644659     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840902751188     Document Type: Article

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