[P2P-F] Fwd: [echanges] Livre (2020) - Incorporating the Digital Commons : Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Sebastien Shulz <sebastien.shulz at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 12:43 AM
Subject: [echanges] Livre (2020) - Incorporating the Digital Commons :
Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software
To: Biens communs, réseau francophone <echanges at bienscommuns.org>


Bonsoir à toustes,

Un livre (en accès libre) qui pourrait en intéresser quelques un.e.s. Il
traite des interactions entre communs numériques et capitalisme numérique.
Une suite aux réflexions déjà entamées par Sébastien Broca, Lionel Morel,
etc.

https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book39/

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Birkinbine, B. J. (2020) *Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate
Involvement in Free and Open Source Software*.

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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*Sébastien Shulz*
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