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technoskeptic | 12.02.2004 09:32 | Technology
Interesting article discussing some of the hype around "open source"
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/01/30/1158224
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The Packet Gang
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/01/30/1158224
"Openness – as an organising principle and political ideology – has become an article of faith across networked social movements. From its role as a central tenet of free and open source software production to its current popularity within activist circles, the concept of openness is attracting enthusiastic adherence. Here, as part of our series on the politics of alternative media structures, JJ King takes a less credulous view of what lies beneath the dream of organisational horizontality"
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"Openness – as an organising principle and political ideology – has become an article of faith across networked social movements. From its role as a central tenet of free and open source software production to its current popularity within activist circles, the concept of openness is attracting enthusiastic adherence. Here, as part of our series on the politics of alternative media structures, JJ King takes a less credulous view of what lies beneath the dream of organisational horizontality"
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