Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and

This book provides a synoptic perspective on the relationships between free software and freedom. The book focuses on five main themes: emancipatory potential of technology social liberties the facilitation of creativity the objectivity of computing as a scientific practice the role of software in a cyborg world and asks: are the freedoms of free software, and how are they manifested? Free software continues to be hyped. This book demonstrates that the hype is well-founded and yet too narrowly focused: free software promises to transform not only technology but society as well.

Samir Chopra is Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Free Software and Political Economy	p. 1
The Ethics of Free Software	p. 37
Free Software and the Aesthetics of Code	p. 73
Free Software and the Scientific Practice of Computer Science	p. 111
Free Software and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World	p. 145
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 199
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Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software

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