Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers

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* Essay: Coleman, Gabriella (2009) Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers. Cultural Anthropology. 24(3): 420-454 (2009)

URL = http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/005/984/Coleman-Code-is-Speech.pdf

“This essay examines the channels through which Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) developers reconfigure central tenets of the liberal tradition — and the meanings of both freedom and speech — to defend against efforts to constrain their productive autonomy. I demonstrate how F/OSS developers contest and specify the meaning of liberal freedom — especially free speech — through the development of legal tools and discourses within the context of the F/OSS project”

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