Felix Stalder is co-founder of Openflows, a network company specializing in the technical and social aspects of on-line collaborative environments, and free software in general. He is also a lecturer in media economy at the Academy of Arts and Design in Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has written extensively on “open source as a social principle” for academic and popular media. He lives in Vienna. His texts are available at http://felix.openflows.org

16 January 2006

couverture du livre enjeux de mots This text is an extract from the book Word Matters: multicultural perspectives on information societies. This book, which has been coordinated by Alain Ambrosi, Valérie Peugeot and Daniel Pimienta was released on November 5, 2005 by C & F Éditions.

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