"So I have an announcement: I have written, and published, A Book [...] Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software ..." -- From the book description: "Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet c start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that binds together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and other Free Software advocates. [...] Kelty shows how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge after the arrival of the Internet..." -- http://twobits.net/discuss/
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can.axis
15 years 45 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago
Richard Stallman reviews
RMS: "I’ve had a chance to look at some of the book text.
It seems to make interesting points, and it could be
among the better books about this subject.
However, it has one very important flaw: it refers often to
“intellectual property” as if that were a coherent thing. This is a
major flaw. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.
So I will not be able to give you an endorsement." -- http://twobits.net/reviews/
can.axis
15 years 45 weeks 7 hours 20 min ago
Free Software–Free Book: Chris Kelty’s Two Bits
Here's another reviews: http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=342
"Chris Kelty’s book, Two Bits, just launched. You can read more about it from his post at Savage Minds.
Yeah for Chris! The even better news is that the book can be downloaded and “modulated” (remixed, etc) all from the Two Bits website. Chris and his collaborators have set the bar pretty high in terms of their own remixing of traditional academic book distribution practices. Way to go!
I met Chris as I was just dipping my toes in the ocean of free culture/free software/ open access debates in 2004 at a SSRC symposium in Santa Clara. I was presenting material about and a critique of “remixing” in relation to indigenous challenges to the unquestioned commons talk. Chris asked the first question after my talk and I had no idea what he was asking! I tried my best to flub through, but it was hopeless. Despite my ineptitude then Chris has been a great interlocutor on my journey into this field and his work is a stellar example of the best kind of anthropology around.
Congratulations Chris!"
can.axis
15 years 44 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago
Book Reviews -- Creative ommons
Book Reviews by Cameron Parkins (Creative Commons): http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8345
can.axis
15 years 44 weeks 6 days 12 hours ago
What is recursivepublic.net?
The book's associated website: http://recursivepublic.net/
I agree with RMS, it's a mistake to use the term "intellectual property"...