[ox-en] Marxist Theory and Free Software
- From: geert lovink <geert desk.nl>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:20:47 +1100
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From: Mikael Pawlo <mikael pawlo.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:55:45 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
To: dave farber.net
Subject: Marxist Theory and Free Software
Dave,
First Monday published an article by Johan Soderberg, where Soderberg
explores free software from a Marxist perspective. Soderberg is very
ambitious in his efforts to apply Marxist theory to free software
development. It is not easy to sum the article up in a few sentences, but
basically Soderberg sees software as a showcase of the productive force of
the general intellect, foreseen by Marx 150 years ago. Hence, production
becomes more social, thus the hacker movement can - according to Soderberg
- - challenge capital's domination over technological development. This is
interesting food for thought, even if you do not share Soderberg political
views on computer program development.
The article:
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_3/soderberg/
A related political message furnished by Gnuheter.com:
http://www.blipp.com/gfx/opensource.png
Stallman on why software should be free:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html
Best Regards
Mikael
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