Hacking Capitalism
Subtitle: The Free and Open Source Software Movement
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415955430
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.