025 Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)

Type

Book

Authors

Johan ( Söderberg )

ISBN 13

9780415955430

Tags

Free Enterprise, Theory, Software Development, Programming Languages, Hacking, Sociology, Politics & Government, Economic Theory, Software Design & Engineering, Digital, Organisational, Social

Description

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement. This book is the first to examine a different kind of political activism that consists in the development of technology from below. - from Amzon

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