Re: <nettime> Code as (literary) text

[Florian Cramer <paragram@gmx.net>]

> I'm interested in possible ways to discuss open source as a literary approach
> to software - hackers as writers who view software as text and not commodity -

Hi,

several months ago, I posted a paper about "Free Software as Collaborative
Text" which might fit your needs. Since I don't want to repost it here,
this the URL of the (slightly revised) text:


http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/aufsaetze/netzliteratur/free_software_as_text.html

Florian

-- 
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~cantsin/
http://www.complit.fu-berlin.de/institut/lehrpersonal/cramer.html
PGP public key ID 6440BA05 






#  distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission
#  <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism,
#  collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets
#  more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net