Hello Eli Malinsky You can read my paper written for an undergraduate course. The title is Volunteerism, public information, and the open regulation of the information society. unpublished except on the web at this URL http://www.webpagex.org/ lawvolinternet.htm I quote some of the books by scholars probably on this list serve in this paper. Open source is only briefly described but is brought through a filter of Lessig's "Code" and his biased views as I see him. He is lawyer who jumped on the Internet bandwagon IMHO But then I would say most lawyers of technology who concentrate on Intellectual property these days are useless. More important to my thesis in that paper is that the Internet will always remain a volunteer run network thus a piece of civil society. On 29-Jul-06, at 10:46 AM, Eli Malinsky wrote:
Hi everyone,
After years of lurking I finally have my first question: Is anyone aware of any research that addresses the experience of civil society organizations (aka nonprofits, NGOs, voluntary orgs, etc.) using open source software? Or perhaps deals with the putative alignment between the "values" of open source and the values of civil society?
Much appreciated!
Eli Malinsky
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