Free software: Genealogy and "ideologies" of a social movement

Authors

  • Flora Dauphin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/logos.2008.421

Keywords:

free software & open source, technique and ideology, social movement

Abstract

This article tries to understand how free software became vector of a social movement militating for the creation and the distribution of common goods. How beyond their characteristic of tool, this software was transformed into political, economic, social, cultural and ethical stakes? It is thus the emergence, the organization and the “ideologies” of this movement that we proposed of analyzed here.

Author Biography

Flora Dauphin

Ph.D. in sociology and a member of CEAQ, Sorbonne, Paris V. He teaches at the IRTS Melun, french island.

Published

2010-05-03

How to Cite

Dauphin, F. (2010). Free software: Genealogy and "ideologies" of a social movement. Logos, 15(2 (2008), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.12957/logos.2008.421