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Introduction of Control

Openness and fairness aren't enough: Free Software and Open Source are the project of both by anarchists and libertarians with divergent political goals.

I like “control” because people identify with being controlled, more than being coded. Control is not politically neutral.

I present control of collaborative work in three ways:

  • control as articulated as social forces (i.e. a Romantic conception of authorship);

  • control as articulated as technology (you have all read plenty about this by now);

  • control as articulated as law (which of course Lessig discusses);