| Free software is a matter of the users'freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. With the development of information society, people which use free software are becoming more and more. Free software movement is thus the rise. In the process of free software movement development, also differentiated the open source movement. It not only adhered to the fundamental spirit of the free software movement, but also combined with commercial development. At present the free software movement has been from the start-up phase to a high speed in the development stage.With the free software movement, it has also been accompanied by controversy. In this paper, we think that the free software movement's ethical spirit is openness, freedom and sharing together. In the ethical spirit, freedom is the core. This spirit of ethics make by two ways. First, scientific ethics, free software movement is the new renaissance of scientific ethics in the IT sector. Second, the spirit of the Internet and the spirit of the open source movement build a network information of core IT culture together. At the same time, free software movement is not extreme freedom, but rather to establish the contract in their own, the self-consistent freedom.After this try, ethical spirit of free software has been analysed with the traditional ethical theories. Deontology and Consequentialism are the most important theory of the traditional theory. They are both comparative and complementary, alternately play the role of guiding human behavior. Kantianism and Social Contract are the most important things among to Deontology, The main representative of Consequentialism is Utilitarian. Through the study of these ethical theories, we found that any of these theories are not perfect. Each theory has not enough, we integrated with these types of ethical theory, to explore the ethical values of the free software, and inquiry their Ethical Implications of the reasonableness. Afterwards, the thesis tries to conduct rational analysis to the ethics of free software, advocating integration or beyond of traditional ethical theory. In other words, the two theories should be combined to maintain the necessary tension with the help of practice being, in order to realize the dialectical unity.On this basis, the thesis attempts to combine academy and problems to explore the opportunity of developing country's software growth which is brought about by the free software movement. Mainly from the practical point of view, the free software will be placed under the broad social context and historical space. It probes into the closely related "digital gap" and "cultural imperialism" and some more issue. It also makes a study of challenges and significances on the information society, especially it elaborates the importance of catching up from behind to our information industry. The thesis reckons that:the fact choosing the vibrant free software which meets the growing trend of the historical times as the developing direction of Chinese software industry is irreversible option under the condition of the real economy of Chinese society and the circumstance of international industries.At last, the thesis provides us with the basic strategy for the development of Chinese software industries exploring free software. |
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