ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the Debian and Drupal cases to highlight both the possibilities and challenges involved with developing free software communities as part of the digital commons. It provides distinct local struggles in the US and Brazil laid two main foundations for the digital commons as an alternative to private property. The digital commons were grounded in free software as a new form of property as well as opening up access to global computer networks. The book explores software politics that arise as free software activists struggle with corporations and governments to shape the terms for software use. It focuses on the case of free software activists in France, which built a global community of resistance with explicit political focus. By engaging in Freireian processes of praxis, the book extends the pedagogy of liberation to the consumption of software and the Internet.
