利用软件,倡导意识形态:自由软件和开源
Leveraging Software, Advocating Ideology: Free Software and Open Source
摘要:
本文使用软件程序Linux和围绕它的话语,以检查软件程序如何可以用来阐明和捍卫社会和经济地位。虽然我没有在严格的法律意义上使用“表达”这个术语,但我认为,为了做出涉及软件的政策决策,理解软件的功能是如何表达的是很重要的。另一种说法是,像Linux这样的软件程序通过功能和谈论功能而具有社会意义。在第一节中,我回顾了最近一些关于软件的法律奖学金,并解释了为什么理解嵌入式技术表达的工作原理是重要的,因为软件在治理中的作用越来越大。在第二部分中,我将把软件构建作为社会实践和技术实践的结合来探索。在第三部分,我描述了一些围绕Linux软件程序的意义创造的例子。在第四节中,我最后简要说明了为什么这种分析是重要的。
英文摘要:
This paper uses the software program Linux and the discourse around it in order to examine how software programs can be used to articulate and defend social and economic positions. Although I do not use the term "expression" in a strict legal sense, I claim that in order to make policy decisions involving software, it is important to understand how the functionality of software is expressive. Another way to state this is that software programs like Linux are socially meaningful through functionality and talk about functionality. In section I, I review some recent legal scholarship about software and explain why understanding how embedded technical expression works is important given the increasingly large role of software in governance. In section II, I explore software construction as a combination of social and technical practices. In section III, I describe some examples of meaning-making around the software program Linux. In section IV I conclude with a short description of why such analyses are important.
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