ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Implied Warranty, Ethnography, Limited Government
16 Apr 2016
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The anthropology of law online anth222 reading notes. Coleman, gabriella, coding freedom: the ethics and aestheics of hacking, 1-20,25-60. Free and open source sotware: non-proprietary but licenced sotware, much of which is produced by technologists located around the globe who coordinate development through internet-based projects. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty, without even the implied warranty of merchantability or itness for a paricular purpose . If developers cannot legally guarantee the so called itness of sotware, they know that in many instances free sotware is oten as useful as or in some cases superior to proprietary sotware. When we speak of free sotware, we are referring to freedom, not our price. F/oss challenges the current intellectual property regime, growing more restricive, and thus dubbed ominously by one legal scholar as the contemporary motor of the second enclosure movement.
