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Hackers, Humanists, and Intellectuals: Lessons From the Open Source Revolution

Overview Open Source movement has emerged from university Computing Science departments and technical schools to become a largely autonomous political group whose inspiring history may hold lessons for the humanist academy. If nothing else, humanities academics should be pleasantly surprised to discover just how much they actually share in common with a group situated firmly within the applied sciences: computer hackers.

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Publisher	University of Alberta	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Anti-Hacking

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