Marleen Wynants, Jan Cornelis (eds.): How Open Is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open Source Software (2008)

In this book a wide range of free-thinking programmers, scientists, artists, designers, engineers, activists, researchers and scholars express their views about various ways of creating and sharing knowledge in an age characterised by thephenomenal rise of the Internet and the growing tendency to protect all intellectual property.

There are two reasons why the free and open-source software issue has become such an inspirational and powerful force today: the rise of the Internet and the growing tendency to protect all intellectual property. Internet technology made it possible to handle massive decentralized projects and irreversibly changed our personal communication and information research. Intellectual property, on the other hand, is a legal instrument which – due to recent excesses – became the symbol of exactly the opposite of what it had been developed for: the protection of the creative process. As a result, free-thinking programmers, scientists, artists, designers, engineers and scholars are daily trying to come up with new ways of creating and sharing knowledge.

Publisher Asp / VUB Press / Upa, Brussel, 2008
Crosstalks Series
ISBN 9054873787, 9789054873785
534 pages

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