Как хакерската етика подготви преврат в сърцето на неолибералния капитализъм
How Hacker Ethics Prepared a Coup in the Heart of Neoliberal Capitalism

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the question whether it could be said that the ethics of informationalism provides an alternative to the basic tools of capitalism, such as private ownership over the means of production and wage labor, and whether changes caused by the Internet culture accompany the decay of capitalism. The author’s answer to the question is influenced by M. Castells’s book The Internet Galaxy and P. Himanen’s Hacker Ethics. The most important elements of hacker ethics are the rejection of private ownership over knowledge and the creation of the Open Source licenses. The ethics of informationalism is a source of positive social change because it initiates the Open Source movement, large-scale voluntary work in the Web, ideas about the freedom of the Internet and access to the Internet for all. The role of the Internet for overcoming social inequalities stems from the fact that it overcomes the limitations of time and space, social isolation, and invisibility. The social role of the Internet stems from the rise of a new type of citizenship, which employs an increasing number of ever better instruments for participation in society.

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