Incorporating the Digital Commons
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 (FL...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-355812025-06-11T07:19:19Z Incorporating the Digital Commons Birkinbine, Benjamin Commons political economy free software open source digital capitalism software studies thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJZ History of specific companies / corporate history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour 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. 2021-02-10T14:27:46Z 2021-02-10T14:27:46Z 2020-04-15T14:08:59Z 2020 book OCN: 1155440332 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37226 9781912656424 9781912656448 9781912656455 9781912656448 9781912656455 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35581 eng Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37226/1/incorporating-the-digital-commons.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37226/1/incorporating-the-digital-commons.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37226/1/incorporating-the-digital-commons.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37226/1/incorporating-the-digital-commons.pdf University of Westminster Press 10.16997/book39 10.16997/book39 ebf00090-01f8-4204-9e78-018b9f254c60 9781912656424 9781912656448 9781912656455 9781912656448 9781912656455 158 London open access |
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