Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software - Couverture souple

Birkinbine, Benjamin J.

 
9781912656424: Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1912656426 ISBN 13 : 9781912656424
Editeur : University of Westminster Press, 2020

Synopsis

The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS). FLOSS emerged as an alternative to proprietary software in the 1980s. However, both the products and production processes of FLOSS have become incorporated into capitalist production. For example, Red Hat, Inc. is a large publicly traded company whose business model relies entirely on free software, and IBM, Intel, Cisco, Samsung, Google are some of the largest contributors to Linux, the open-source operating system. This book explores the ways in which FLOSS has been incorporated into digital capitalism. Just as the commons have been used as a motivational frame for radical social movements, it has also served the interests of free-marketeers, corporate libertarians, and states to expand their reach by dragging the shared resources of social life onto digital platforms so they can be integrated into the global capitalist system. The book concludes by asserting the need for a critical political economic understanding of the commons that foregrounds (digital) labour, class struggle, and uneven power distribution within the digital commons as well as between FLOSS communities and their corporate sponsors.

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À propos de l?auteur

Benjamin J. Birkinbine is Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the co-editor of Global Media Giants (Routledge, 2017).

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Éditeur
University of Westminster Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1912656426
ISBN 13 
9781912656424
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
158
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Personne responsable
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