1st Edition
Hacking Capitalism The Free and Open Source Software Movement
By Johan Söderberg
Copyright 2008
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Hackers
Chapter 2: Post-Fordist Capitalism
Chapter 3: The Commodification of Information
Chapter 4: Consumption-Production of Sign Values
Chapter 5: Immaterial Labour
Chapter 6: World Markets and Global Gift
Chapter 7: Play Struggle
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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.
"...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
