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Posted 4 months ago

Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement
Johan Soderberg
Synopsis:
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.
Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement
Johan Soderberg

Synopsis:

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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