philosophy

My review of the fantastic book Decoding Liberation has been published in the American Philosophical Association's newsletter on Computers and Philosophy. I highly recommend the book. (Shameless self-promotion: My perspective on the Freedom Zero problem is discussed in the second chapter.)

Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software
Samir Chopra and Scott Dexter (Routledge, 2007) 232 pages. ISBN: 978-0-415-97893-4.
Reviewed by Matt Butcher
Loyola University Chicago
http://www.apaonline.org/publications/newsletters/v08n2_Computers_18.aspx

In 2006 I started working on a paper on a concept I call "Information Justice". The idea is that information can be understood as a form of wealth, complete with a wealthy, oligarchic class and a poor, powerless lower class. If this is so, then there are serious ethical considerations to be had when it comes to intellectual property rights.