Open Source in Context
June 14th, 2008“Free Software is a set of practices for the distributed collaborative creation of software source code that is then made openly and freely available through a clever, unconventional use of copyright law. But it is much more: Free Software exemplifies a considerable reorientation of knowledge and power in contemporary society — a reorientation of power with respect to the creation, dissemination, and authorization of knowledge in the era of the Internet.”
Christopher M. Kelty, Two Bits (2008), page 2.
What happens if we place this definition in an imaginary context in which copyright law doesn’t exist, where people are prosecuted for mentioning “reorientation of knowledge and power”, and where creativity is not considered a positive trait?