IP: Marxist Theory and Free Software

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Mikael Pawlo <mikael () pawlo com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:55:45 +0100
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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