[Air-l] Open Source Software and Civil Society

[Peter Timusk]

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  unpublished except on the web at this URL http://www.webpagex.org/ 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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Peter Timusk,
B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
Fall 2006 Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa.
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