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Introduction
Principles
Geopolitics of Software Industry
Software Wars
Huge battle
+Global impact on society
History
"Sociology" of the movement
Legal considerations
Choosing Free/OpenSource software
Why address this question in classes at INT
Miscelleanous
Appendices
  

Global impact on society

Impacts every aspects of production and diffusion of knowledge, and more generally all immaterial artefacts :

  • Science publication and data (open archives, etc.)

  • Artistic creation

  • Entertainment

  • Public debate, democracy, resource usage regulation, etc.

New paradigm : Commons
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