软件革命与开放社会

The Revolution of Software and the Open Society

开放软件领域中的技术活动,其实质是一个社会工程,它触及了开放社会的核心,映现出公开的智力资源以及非人际化的、以信任为基础的“社会资本”的巨大作用。在信息时代,随着经济复杂性的日益突出及技术水平的不断提高,社会资本和内在化的非正式规范变得越来越重要,因为复杂的活动需要自我组织和自我管理。

The essence of free software is a kind of social engineering, which touches the core of open society. It reflects the function of public intellectual source and social capital based on credence. In information era, with the advancement of technology and the increase of complexity of economy, social capital and informal criterion become more and more important.