Hacking Capitalism The Free and Open Source Software (Foss) Movement
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9780415955430
ISBN:0415955432
Pub Date: 2007Publisher: Routledge Summary: Hacking Capitalism provides a Marxist analysis of hacking and of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement. Söderberg argues that hacking is a continuation of the labour struggle and that it embodies a qualitatively new form of struggle since it departs from the wage labour relation. The book explores the current outdoing of multinational corporations by teams of volunteer developers (hackers) in producing ad [read more]
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9780415955430
ISBN:
0415955432
Pub Date: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Hacking Capitalism provides a Marxist analysis of hacking and of the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement. Söderberg argues that hacking is a continuation of the labour struggle and that it embodies a qualitatively new form of struggle since it departs from the wage labour relation. The book explores the current outdoing of multinational corporations by teams of volunteer developers (hackers) in producing advanced technology (perhaps best exemplified by the challenge to Windows by GNU/Linux). To protect their collective efforts, FOSS programmers have turned the copyright law inside out and designed a license (the General Public License) that prevents private appropriation by copyright. This book provides exceptional insight into the struggle by hackers over technological development and legislation.
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