an ethical obligation to copy
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gnovis is a magazine specializing in the issues that comprise the media, culture and technology, edited by Georgetown University, Washington DC. This journal is about the ways of seeing and understanding culture through critical inquiry, interdisciplinary perspectives covering topics such as art, media, politics and technology. In delivery Vol. 8 No. 1, 2007, highlights the interesting article An Ethical Obligation to Copy - The Origins and Implications of Free Software of Karl Arthur Giverholt (MA candidate at New York University, in Humanities and Social Thought), which presents the development model and philosophy of free software and construction of the operating system GNU / Linux, to suggest the social significance has been the fact that many communities of hackers been responsible for enabling digital tools and information can be copied and modified without affecting the original cybercultural phenomenon has been rethinking traditional concepts of property, labor and technology, based on an ethical rather than economic factors. Without doubt, the seeds are sown for decades Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond, Lawrence Lessing, Pekka Himanen and many others believe that sharing is the basis of a fairer society, continue to spread through the world of cyberculture.
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