The Hacker Ethic
Subtitle: and the Spirit of the Information Age
Contributors: Manuel Castells (Epilogue)
Publisher: Random House
Published: January 30, 2001
Place of publication: 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780375505669
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Computer programing; Computer hackers; Open source software
First sentence: At the core of our technological time stands a fascinating group of people who call themselves hackers.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Prologue: What Makes Hackers Tick? a.k.a. Linus's Law, by Linus Torvalds; title: PART ONE: THE WORK ETHIC; title: Chapter 1. The Hacker Work Ethic; title: Chapter 2. Time is Money?; title: PART TWO: THE MONEY ETHIC; title: Chapter 3. Money as a Movie; title: Chapter 4. The Academy and the Monastery; title: PART THREE: THE NETHIC; title: Chapter 5. From Netiquette to a Nethic; title: Chapter 6. The Spirit of Informationalism; title: CONCLUSION; title: Chapter 7. Rest; title: Epilogue: Informationalism and the Network Society, by Manuel Castells; title: Appendix: A Brief History of Computer Hackerism; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Acknowledgments