Exploitation of the self in community-based software production: Workers' freedoms or firm foundations?
Free and open-source software (FOSS) communities constitute an arena in which thousands of users voluntarily explore design codes, spot bugs in codes, and make contributions to the code in a fashion at odds with the otherwise hugely competitive software market. This computerisation movement emerged...
| Publicado en: | Capital & Class no. 97; pp. 99 - 120 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Spring 2009
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