ABSTRACT

This paper examines a “culture war” underway among software peer-production communities through relevant blog posts, legal documents, forum discussions, and other sources. Software licensing has been a defining strategy for peer producers, and much of the conflict at hand revolves around whether licensing should more fully incorporate ethics and economics, respectively. Feminist analysis can aid in tracing the contours of discontent through its emphasis on social processes that enable and infuse productive activity—processes that peer producers have trained themselves to ignore. The emerging critiques, and the experiments they have inspired, gesture toward fuller understandings of what “free” and “open” might mean.

摘要

本文通过相关的博客文章、法律文件、论坛讨论和其他来源，研究了软件同行生产社区之间正在进行的“文化战争”。软件许可一直是同行生产者的决定性策略，目前的大部分冲突都围绕着许可是否应该更充分地分别包含道德和经济学。女权主义分析可以通过强调促进和注入生产活动的社会过程来帮助追踪不满的轮廓——这些过程被同行生产者训练自己忽略。新兴的批评，以及他们所激发的实验，都指向更全面地理解“自由”和“开放”可能意味着什么。