Free/Libre Open Source Software, Liberalism, Conviviality and Private Property. An anthropological view of Zotero Advocates.

This study examines Free/Libre Open Source Software and its inherent problematisation of property rights. An ethnographic study of a network of FLOSS advocates based in academic libraries supporting the use of bibliographical management tool Zotero is used as a way of teasing out themes of community, conviviality, liberalism and definitions of 'free' to examine how property rights around ideas formed into software question commercial proprietary forms of commoditisation.