Open source movement is like things anthropologists have studied for a long time

Jill Walker (University of Bergen, Norway) reports from a seminar I've missed to attend:

Lars Risan is the first speaker at the network seminar I’m at in Oslo. Don’t you love the idea of code as sacrament? Lars is an anthropologist, and he starts his talk by saying that actually, what we see in the open source movement is a lot like things anthropologists have studied for a long time. >> continue

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