Scale and Convention: Programmed Languages in a Regulated America

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TitleScale and Convention: Programmed Languages in a Regulated America
Publication TypeUnpublished
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsKelty, C
Date PublishedDecember
Abstract

This thesis is a combination of an ethnography of an internet healthcare startup company and a philosophical investigation of technical standards, open and closed. Chapters K, L, and M are introductions to three main figures in the Open Source movement between 1998-2000 – Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, and Eric Raymond.
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