----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelley" <kwalker2 at gte.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Marxist Theory and Free Software
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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
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> 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
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>
> Best Regards
>
> Mikael
=============== Interesting. Yesterday I read a piece on software design and divide and rule by Richard Sharpe in "The Critical Study of Work" that might also be of interest to some folks on the list.
Ian
