Over at gnovis, I just posted a book review of Johan Soderberg's "Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement, arguably the only full length book to bring NeoMarxist criticism to bear on the open source software movement. I highly recommend

Is open source software provocative to capitalism because it is free, or because it is authored in a way that subverts the labor-wage-consumption relations that are so central to Post-Fordist capitalism?

This is the central question taken up in "Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement" (Routledge, 2008) by Johan Soderberg. He comes down on the side of the latter, arguing specifically that the hacker movement has replaced the increasingly ineffective labor struggle with a new form of struggle: play struggle. "Resistance has here become a game" (183).

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