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Open Source and the Network Society
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@MISC{Pedersen_opensource,
author = {Soeren Thing Pedersen and Towards A New and Understanding Of Society},
title = {Open Source and the Network Society},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
this paper is to discus how the open source movement can be regarded as a civil society. Through an analysis and discussion of the recent development in society the context and to http://www.opensource.org I use the term global scenes deliberately. There is no single global scene. As I will explain later in the paper, society can be seen as a complex abstract of several global scenes. a certain extent the prerequisites surrounding the open source movement will be presented. The analysis and discussion of the open source movement will both derive advantage from this basis as well as throw new light back on the recent development in society. In the first part of this paper I will discus the recent development of the society and thereby present important issues and terms. In the second part of the paper these issues and terms will be applied to the open source movement with the intent to discus the movement and develop a broadened understanding of the movement and its implication for the society in general. The open source movement will be discussed in general terms and I will try to avoid the technical issues. Before concluding the paper, I will present a more general discussion on how the open source movement as a contemporary movement can throw new light on the development of society. Communication, democracy and a networked society The right to communicate Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 : Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. The information society, we are entering and to some extent already live in, is built upon efforts from the industrial society. Even ...
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open source movement open source recent development network society second part general term new light complex abstract first part several global scene universal declaration broadened understanding human right technical issue derive advantage information society present important issue civil society networked society term global scene throw new light contemporary movement industrial society single global scene general discussion certain extent
