
Coding a Free Society
Open Source Strategies for Policymakers
Jyh-An Lee(Author)
AV Akademikerverlag
Published on 23. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-3-639-41599-5 (ISBN)
Description
Revision with unchanged content. For a variety of policy reasons, governments throughout the world are now adopting different legislative and administrative strategies that support the development of open source software (OSS). Nonetheless, such policies toward OSS are extremely controversial. In this book, Jyh-An Lee summarizes governments' various legislative and administrative approaches to promote OSS, and analyzes such trend from a global perspective. Lee elucidates numerous economic, technical, political, and legal factors affecting governmental policies toward OSS. The most fundamental argument of the book is that, in lending its support to OSS, the difference between a government user and a business user is that the government should take into account society's long-term interests, not merely its own interests as a consumer. The book is addressed to professionals, such as policymakers, lawyers, business consultants, software managers, and scholars in relevant fields.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
244 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-639-41599-5 (9783639415995)
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is a J.S.D. candidate at Stanford Law School. He received LL.M. from Harvard Law School and LL.B./M.B.A. from National Taiwan University. He had been a practicing lawyer in Taiwan specializing in technology and business transactions. His research interests include intellectual property, information law, and communications law.