“Open Source” and “Collaborative Production” are important concepts for understanding new information technologies and their relation to social networks. For our purposes, we can understand these as closely related terms describing social arrangements through which groups of people work together in order to create something.
The term open source is often used to refer to a [...]
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Open Source and Collaborative Production
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