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From: Mikael Pawlo <mikael at pawlo.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:55:45 +0100 To: dave at 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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