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Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement [Kõva köide]

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.

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"...an excellent resource for those interested in Marxist studies, labor history, the FOSS movement, and current trends in computing... Recommended."

- P. L. Kantor, University of Advancing Technology, Choice

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 A Background of the Hacker Movement 11
2 FOSS Development in a Post-Fordist Perspective 50
3 Commodification of Information 74
4 Consumption and Needs of Information Goods 99
5 Production of Information 114
6 Markets and Gift in the Networked Economy 137
7 Play Struggle of Hackers 156
Summary 187
Notes 193
Bibliography 221
Index 237


Johan Söderberg was educated at the Falmouth College of Arts in England and holds a degree in Science and Technology Policy from Lund University, Sweden.