Cycles of Struggle in Biotechnology: Open Source Methods
Canadian Association for Information Science, Winnipeg, MB, June 3-5, 2004 === Open source methodologies used in software are interrogated and then compared to the methods used in farmersâ rights groups. The use of open source methods in other contexts illustrates increasing interest in grassroots...
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106311 |
| Summary: | Canadian Association for Information Science, Winnipeg, MB, June 3-5, 2004 === Open source methodologies used in software are interrogated and then compared to the methods used in farmersâ rights groups. The use of open source methods in other contexts illustrates increasing interest in grassroots democratic movements participating in the continuing process of balance between public and private interests. These efforts provide a possible alternate framework for policy decisions concerning intellectual property. (The paper is available from http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/kipp/) |
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