Open Sources and the Open Society:
An Essay in Politics and Technology

Kelly A. Parker
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, Michigan 49401  USA
email: <parkerk@gvsu.edu>

• Extended abstract: (OSFSAbstract.html).
• Version 1.0 of the paper as a web page: (OSFSEssay.html).
• Version 1.0.1 of the paper in printable format: (OSFSEssay.pdf).
  23 pages, US lettersize paper.
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A revised version of a paper presented at a Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Symposium on ``Shaping the Network Society,'' sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility at the University of Washington, Seattle, 20 May 2000.