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What is Communitarianism

Chapter 1
Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
A philosophical view holding that the primary political goal is the good life of the community.
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Free Software Philosophy and Open Source
Niklas Vainio (University of Tampere, Finland)
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-999-1.ch001
Abstract
This chapter introduces and explains some of the most relevant features of the free software philosophy formulated by Richard M. Stallman in the 1980s. The free software philosophy and the free software movement built on it historically preceded the open source movement by a decade and provided some of the key technological, legal and ideological foundations of the open source movement. Thus, in order to study the ideology of open source and its differences with regard to other modes of software production, it is important to understand the reasoning and the presuppositions included in Stallman’s free software philosophy.
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Privacy, Contingency, Identity, and the Group
By contrast, communitarianism argues that there is something fundamentally wrong in liberalism because liberalism accords the individual a primacy in devising a political system. What is wrong in that conception is that liberalism presupposes that the individual can exist freely on her own as if existing in a vacuum having no essential relation to her communities or surroundings. As communities are in the real world, the norms and expectations of the particular community in fact informs the decisions by the individual.
Published in Chapter: Privacy, Contingency, Identity, and the Group; From: Handbook of Research on Technoethics
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