One Book, Two Bits

06-10-2008 | 02:55 PM EST

Just a short announcement that I think will be of interest to everyone who follows this blog. Two Bits, The Cultural Significance of Free Software by Christopher M. Kelty is now available for purchase at http://twobits.net/buy/. The main premise of the book is that the practices that have informed Free Software for years have moved beyond the software development domain and into the greater realms of openness, copyright licenses, and collaboration among other things. According to the book's website, "Kelty shows how [Free Software] practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge after the arrival of the Internet."

While I haven't personally read this book yet, I think it promises to be an extremely interesting and informative work that will probably put into detail and perspective many of the topics you read about here. On a side note, Two Bits is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike, Non-commercial License. So, get the book, read it, re-mix, and share it with your friends!

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