Conceiving Open Systems

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This Article tells the story of the contest over the meaning of "open systems" from 1980 to 1993, a contest to create a simultaneously moral and technical infrastructure within the computer industry.

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Information technology -- Social aspects, Technological innovations, Open source software, Software licensing

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Christopher M. Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles)

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