[Solar-general] Leyendo Hacking Capitalism

Sab Oct 23 21:40:28 CEST 2010

Las cursivas son mÃas (//)

"Open Source does not, however, demand that the open license is attached
to derivatives of the original code. By removing the 'viral' feature of
GPL, Open Source provides firms with a back-door for appropiating code.
Software licensed under Open Source can re 'ripped, mixed, and burned'
and released under copyright. That is how Mozilla Public License was
intended to work for Netscape. This is what repeatedly happens with
software licensed under the term of the Berkeley Software Distribution
(BSD) license. In Marxist terms, Open Source licenses can be described
as an /organisational principle for systematising 'primitive
accumulation', by which is meant theft, of the social labour/ taking
place in developing communities and in the commons." (pp 37-38)

"The ultimate prize for companies involved in the hacker movement is to
engage a pool of gratis labour in one end of the balance sheet and to
sell the output in the other end with no discount. It's a
'have-your-cake-and-eat-it' business model. If a company sets out to
make money in this way it can't advertise its intent since most
developers refuse to contribute to projects under such terms. Often it
is pulled off as a one-off violation against the terms of the free
license. Despite occasional baddies, most companies have come to the
conclusion that they have more to gain in the long run by playing by the
book. While this fact is a sigh of relief to FOSS project leaders, the
same remark looks entirely different from a Marxist vantage point. /To a
Marxist it suggests that a more systematic way of exploiting labour has
been found./ Our critique must therefore not stop at the companies that
violate the free licenses, or else we will fail to detect subtler forms
of exploitation that sidesteps the direct point of sale." (pp 40)

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