[Air-l] Libertarianism and Programmers / Techies

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

It probably goes back farther, but the earliest take on it that is in  
not bored with brian elwell's Silicon Breakdown.   http:// 
www.notbored.org/silicon.html, but I also have 50 other documents  
that mention some relation between the two ideas.  I would tend to  
argue that it arises in the technological critiques of the late 50's  
through early 70's as a difference between the IBM and related type  
of computing and the university computing and its derivatives in  
startups, and similar institutions.
On Apr 20, 2006, at 11:05 PM, Ericka Menchen Trevino wrote:

> I've heard, in Lessig's book "code" and informally in conversation
> about the link between free-market secularism / Libertarianism and
> programmers / technologists. Are there good resources that addresse
> how this link historically evolved and why it happened? (If it, in
> face, did?).
>
> Ericka Menchen Trevino
> Graduate Student
> University of Illinois at Chicago
> Department of Communication
>
> http://blog.erickamenchen.net/
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