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The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
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“FOSS is made visible to wider publics through its extensive use and resignification.”
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“Political intent and subjectivity are indeed noticeably absent in the constitution of the free software and open source movement”
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“The commons movement, centered on the idea of creating public goods to reinvigorate democratic principles, pragmatically built their licenses and justifications around the already existing practice of FOSS (Bollier 2002, Lessig 2001).”
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“the social practices of free and open software raise the idea that forms property can be antithetical to the principles of free speech”
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“It works because it recalibrates some of the distinctions and associations between free speech and intellectual property”
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“FOSS gives palpable voice to the growing fault lines between expressive and intellectual property rights, especially in the context of digital technologies.”
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“The purported political neutrality of FOSS, inscribed into its technological artifacts through licenses, has facilitated an unfettered circulation of its technologies.”
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“and thus lays the groundwork for its informal political scope”
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“which differs from more formal political endeavors and new social movements predicated on some political intentionality, direction, or reflexivity or a desire to transform wider social conditions.”
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“its key role as a catalyst by which to rethink the assumptions of intellectual property rights through its use and inversion.”
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“FOSS developers also place an extremely high premium on open technical production as an avenue for expressive activity.”
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“FOSS developers would suggest that it is unacceptable to claim that FOSS has as one of its goals anti-globalization, or for that matter any political program”
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“While technical or economic rationalities are often the native explanation for FOSS”
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“The indiscriminate application of patents to software algorithms and other encryption and copyright laws, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), are construed as threats to the free ability of programmers to write source code”
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“Political affiliation also might deter people from participating on development, thus creating an artificial barrier to entry into this sphere whose ideal and idealized form is a transparent meritocracy.”
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“According to hackers, the fact that anyone can use FOSS and that it can be directed towards economic, political, and personal ends is a positive side-effect of openness; they consider it a testament to the power of a neutral political commitment.”
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“While program-ming is considered a transparent, neutral, highly controllable realm for thought and expression where production results in immediate gratification and something useful, politics tend to be seen by programmers as buggy, mediated, and tainted action clouded by ideology that is not productive of much of anything while it insidiously works against true forms of free thought.”
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“Put simply, political claims outside of software subtract from, tarnish, and censor the sphere for the free circulation of thought, action, and expression.”
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“Programmers describe their craft as an activity that allows for personal unrestricted forms of creativity, expression, learning, and action, enacted through a medium, the digital computer, and preferably interfaced through a transparent and flexible, technical environment (like UNIX).”
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“On the opposite side of the spectrum, leftist media websites such as Indymedia.netrun almost entirely on FOSS while its activists adore it for its subversive, anticapitalist potentialities.”
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“Downloading music and watching movies, socializing in chat rooms, playing highly addictive mutli-player games, creating software libre, meeting future girlfriends and wives on chat channels, reading your news daily online-all these activities contribute to a strong practical orientation and embodied disposition that the activity of communicating on and creating through a computer is a space of”
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“You can't tweak politics in an elegant and creative way to achieve something immediately gratifying, and thus it goes against everything programmers think and love about computing.”
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“which hackers and programmers have only recently come to conceptualize as a form of communication worthy of the broadest protections afforded by First Amendment law.”
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“A political tag is also perceived to curtail one's personal freedom for deciding how to best interpret this domain of activity-a form of censorship and thus a highly polluted association to conjure.”
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“FOSS has not only transformed the dynamics of software development but is also shifting understandings of the appropriate use of intellectual property instruments and the scope of free speech protections.”
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“FOSS has not only transformed the dynamics of software development but is also shifting understandings of the appropriate use of intellectual property instruments and the scope of free speech protections.”
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“a cultural positioning that simultaneously is informed by the computing techniques and outwardly expresses and thus constitutes hacker values.”
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“All provisions in these documents work through a logic of non-discrimination as to achieve universality.”
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- Not matchedcites Free Software Definition
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“the goal of which is to enact a universal sphere for the flourishing of free forms of action and thought.”
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- Not matchedcites Free Software Definition
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“The moral and semiotic load of free software is a commitment to prevent limiting the freedom of others.”
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- Not matchedcites Free Software Definition
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“political denial is culturally orchestrated through a rearticulation of free speech principles”
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“In these charters, freedom underscores an individual's right to create, use, and distribute software in a manner that will allow exactly the same for others, so long as license rules are followed”
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- Not matchedcites Free Software Definition
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“Within this purview, source code, the line-by-line directions that programmers write to make software applications, is treated implicitly and explicitly as a form of speech.”
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- Not matchedcites Free Software Definition
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“Perhaps most significant is that FOSS enjoins others to become part of its performance in various ways: use of FOSS artifacts and licenses, participation in projects, reflection of the larger meaning of collaboration, and the reuse (and reconfigurations) of its licenses for other non-technological objects, such as college courseware, music, books, and movies.”
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“Despite this incipient cognizance of the legal threats to free speech, what grows out of this particular life world of intense, lifelong programming and networked sociality is an overt aesthetic dislike for politics and a culturally embodied experience of freedom that conceptually shuns politics.”
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“Due to this productive ambiguity that resists political affiliation of left, right, and liberal, FOSS has circulated extensively, though the relevance of freedom and openness mutates along the way of its excursions”
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“In essence, computing is understood and experienced (sometimes reflectively, other times implicitly) by FOSS hackers as the very micro-sphere for the unfettered circulation of thought, expression, and action that freedom within the macro-sphere FOSS seeks to achieve through licenses.”
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“an objectification buttressed within a hacker public sphere and as a political vector to make claims against the aggressive application of intellectual property restrictions.”
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“In other words, it reminds us that free speech, privacy, and property right have complex histories born from material and discursive struggles over meaning, even if such principles are socially construed as beyond the turmoil of history.”
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- Not matchedcites Bollinger and Stone 2002
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“While relevant in other ways, it is analytically deficient to analyze the free speech elements of free software as an example of these otherwise cogent analyses-that is, as an augmentation or verification of an already existing and mystified American liberal tradition.”
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“Also to simply assert that the free speech character of FOSS is an expression of liberal values occludes key questions of investigation”
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“FOSS, among many other things, functions as a form of critical ethnography writ large.”
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“Thousands upon thousands of developers laboring to make software libre provides potent critiques and viable alternatives since it is realized by the social performance of collective labor and licenses that others can and now do use.”
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“The technological potential for unlimited programmable capabilities melds with what is seen as the expansive ability for programmers to create.”
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“For programmers, computing in a dual sense, as a technology and as an activity, becomes a total realm for the freedom of creation and expression.”
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“As a number of critical scholars argue, forms of political neutrality are immanent to free speech doctrine (Brown 1995, Fish 1999, Marcuse 1965, MacKinnon 1993, Passavat 2002).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Brown 1995 source
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“Each group situates it in ways that empowers and legitimates their own aspirations, but through their particular efforts they extend FOSS to wider publics.”
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“In addition, the pragmatics of computing is a means by which to typify political activity as distasteful, unappealing, and ineffective.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Political Agnosticism
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In the paper
“And though there are distinct imaginaries grafted onto FOSS, certain implicit political messages within the labor and law of free and open source software also gain visible prominence.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > The Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
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In the paper
“These critiques treat decontextualized neutrality primarily as ideological scaffolding that justifies a politics of individual liberties over those of structural equality.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Political Agnosticism
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Brown 1995 source
- Not matchedcites Fish 1999
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- Not matchedcites Marcuse 1965
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In the paper
“The freedom of free software, while influenced by wider liberal sensibilities, is fundamentally shaped by the pragmatics of programming and the social context of Internet use.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Political Agnosticism
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In the paper
“Actualized labor in practice undermines current theories of labor in the law whose nature is to pose singular models for the proper relationship between legal means and ends.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > The Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
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In the paper
“The feature of critique that arises through the cultural struggle to recreate and redefine meanings and associations, I have come to learn, is much more ephemeral than the supposed ephemera of virtual social spaces.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Conclusion
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In the paper
“Through FOSS' visibility, circulation, and use, the juridical understanding of free speech is shifting while some of the ingrained assumptions of intellectual property law have already been partially destabilized, the wider effect of which has been to open up a social space for new legal possibilities.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Conclusion
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In the paper
“While many hackers might think you can't tweak politics in an elegant and creative way to achieve something immediate and useful, Richard Stallman, the mastermind behind the copyleft, showed through a clever legal hack that politics can be gratifying and indeed very productive.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > The Inadvertent Politics of Contrast
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In the paper
“The journalistic, popular, and native narrative retelling of the rise and importance of new practices or political sensibilities often don't integrate this moment of cultural defamiliarization, focusing instead on the rubric of great men and their ideas or explanation through unintended consequences that may not have been part of its genesis.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Conclusion
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In the paper
“FOSS, I have argued, is one local instantiation of liberal values, a rearticulation centered on reposing the relationship between intellectual property and free speech law by redirecting the use of licenses to protect expressive activity.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Conclusion
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A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“FOSS sensibilities of freedom and the growing hacker assertion that source code is speech, largely regimented as politically neutral through liberal values, are also rooted in methodologies, values, and techniques constituted around the act of writing code and expressed visibly in a wider public social sphere of hacking.”
§ The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software and the Inadvertent Politics of Contrast > Conclusion
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The paper relies on this without support.
The practices and statements of FOSS hackers are culturally significant and can be read as expressing a coherent set of values.
“The witnessable set of practices, such as collaborative production and the creative deployment of licenses, has become a social point of contrast”
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Gray citation year differs from the reference
MinorThe endnote cites Gray as 1996, while the reference list gives 1986.
“see Gray (1996) in his review of liberal political thought”
“18. Gray, John. 1986. Liberalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.”
Mauss citation year differs from the reference
MinorThe text cites Mauss as 1967, whereas the reference list gives 1954.
“(cf.Benedict 1959, Mead 1928, Marcus and Fisher 1986, Mauss 1967, Sahlins 1976)”
“30. Mauss, Marcel. 1954. The Gift. London: Cohen and West.”
Fisher surname differs from the reference
MinorThe text names Marcus and Fisher, while the reference list names Marcus and Fischer for the 1986 work.
“Marcus and Fisher 1986”
“27. Marcus, George E. and Michael Fischer. 1986. Anthropology as Cultural Critique.”
Betting citation year differs from the reference
MinorThe endnote cites Betting as 1996, but the reference list gives 1986.
“(see Betting 1996;Boyle 1996;Coombe 1998;Lessig 1999Lessig , 2001))”
“4. Betting, Ronald. 1986. Copyrighting Culture. Boulder: Westview Press.”
Fish citation year differs from the reference
MinorThe text cites Fish as 1999, but the reference list gives 1994.
“(Brown 1995, Fish 1999, Marcuse 1965, MacKinnon 1993, Passavat 2002)”
“17. Fish, Stanley. 1994. There's No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing Too.”
Graves citation does not match the listed author
MinorThe endnote cites Graves (1994), but the corresponding 1994 reference names Greaves.
“(see Graves 1994, Brush and Stabinsky 1995, and Shiva 1997)”
“19. Greaves, Tom. 1994. Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous People: A Sourcebook.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Coleman, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Coleman, Gabriella
- ORCID
- Coleman, Gabriella
- Venue
- Anthropological Quarterly
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2004-06
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 507-519
- ISSN
- 0003-5491 (ISSN-L)
- 1534-1518
- OpenAlex
- W1981981344
- Cited by
- 212
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 13.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- Anthropological Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- eVols (University of Hawaii) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Copyright and Intellectual Property
- Keywords
- free and open source software, contrast, political neutrality
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