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Two Bits - The Cultural Significance of Free Software,
Christopher M. Kelty
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I the internet
[the internet]
1. Geeks and Recursive Publics
From the Facts of Human Activity
Geeks and Their Internets
Operating Systems and Social Systems
The Idea of Order at the Keyboard
Internet Silk Road
/pub
From Napster to the Internet
Requests for Comments
Conclusion: Recursive Public
2. Protestant Reformers, Polymaths, Transhumanists
Protestant Reformation
Polymaths and Transhumanists
Conclusion
Part II free software
3. The Movement
Forking Free Software, 1997-2000
A Movement?
Conclusion
4. Sharing Source Code
Before Source
The UNIX Time-Sharing System
Sharing UNIX
Porting UNIX
Forking UNIX
Conclusion
5. Conceiving Open Systems
Hopelessly Plural
Open Systems One: Operating Systems
Figuring Out Goes Haywire
Denouement
Open Systems Two: Networks
Bootstrapping Networks
Success as Failure
Conclusion
6. Writing Copyright Licenses
Free Software Licenses, Once More with Feeling
EMACS, the Extensible, Customizable, Self-documenting, Real-time Display Editor
The Controversy
The Context of Copyright
Conclusion
7. Coordinating Collaborations
From UNIX to Minix to Linux
Design and Adaptability
Patch and Vote
Check Out and Commit
Coordination Is Design
Conclusion: Experiments and Modulations
Part III modulations
[Part III]
8. "If We Succeed, We Will Disappear"
After Free Software
Stories of Connexion
Modulations: From Free Software to Connexions
Modulations: From Connexions to Creative Commons
Participant Figuring Out
9. Reuse, Modification, and the Nonexistence of Norms
Whiteboards: What Was Publication?
Publication in Connexions
Agency and Structure in Connexions
From Law and Technology to Norm
On the Nonexistence of Norms in the Culture of No Culture
Conclusion
Conclusion
The Cultural Consequences of Free Software
Bibliography
Bibliography
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgment
Library of Congress
Library of Congress Catalog
Endnotes
Endnotes
Index
Index
Metadata
SiSU Metadata, document information
Manifest
SiSU Manifest, alternative outputs etc.
Two Bits - The Cultural Significance of Free Software,
Part I the internet
The concept of the state, like most concepts which are introduced by "The," is both too rigid and too tied up with controversies to be of ready use. It is a concept which can be approached by a flank movement more easily than by a frontal attack. The moment we utter the words "The State" a score of intellectual ghosts rise to obscure our vision. Without our intention and without our notice, the notion of "The State" draws us imperceptibly into a consideration of the logical relationship of various ideas to one another, and away from the facts of human activity. It is better, if possible, to start from the latter and see if we are not led thereby into an idea of something which will turn out to implicate the marks and signs which characterize political behavior.
- john dewey, The Public and Its Problems
