Is free and open code a form of infrastructure? How about the humans who write it?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 31, 2007 3:33 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Doc Searls
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I was looking at what my friendStephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago— specifically newspapers’ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure— i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural; especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.

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