The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software
Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
How Computer Systems Embody Values
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Bringing e-democracy back in: why it matters for future research on e-governance
Social Science Computer Review - Special issue: Jane fountain's "building the virtual state"
The Success of Open Source
Free software and the political philosophy of the cyborg world
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society - Selected papers from CEPE 2007: The Seventh International Conference on Computer Ethics -- philosophical enquiry
Free, source-code-available, or proprietary: an ethically charged, context-sensitive choice
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
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This article considers the implications that the use of free and open-source software in government might have for democracy and public participation. From a constructionist perspective, the democratic 'effects' of non-proprietary software are contingent on how the practice of free and open-source software is discursively represented and constituted as it is translated into new e-government systems. On these premises, an analysis of official discourse and government policy for non-proprietary software suggests that its introduction into government will bring more 'politics as usual' rather than democratisation. Nevertheless, on the basis of an alternative discourse of ethics and freedom evident in the Free Software and Open Source communities, the authors of this paper envisage circumstances in which the discourse and practice of non-proprietary software contribute to opening-up and democratising e-government, by protecting and extending transparency and accountability in e-governments and by offering scope for technology to be shaped by citizens and associations as well as by administrators and private interests.