Is Linux the front line in class war?
This article focuses on the book "A Hacker Manifesto," by McKenzie Wrak. Open-source software whose source code is published for anyone to inspect, modify and redistribute is, their argument goes, just like the scientific process that has fuelled Western progress all these years. This book explores...
| Publicado en: | Times Higher Education Supplement no. 1661; p. 31 |
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TSL Education Limited
10/8/2004
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| Sumario: | This article focuses on the book "A Hacker Manifesto," by McKenzie Wrak. Open-source software whose source code is published for anyone to inspect, modify and redistribute is, their argument goes, just like the scientific process that has fuelled Western progress all these years. This book explores themes familiar from the past five years of intellectual property wars. Viewing the intellectual property wars as a class struggle in which hackers are compared to farm workers is interesting, but it is not entirely fair. |
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