The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age

By Pekka Himanen, Manuel Castells, Linus Torvalds. 2001

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Relationships Between Open Source Software Companies and Communities: Observations from Nordic Firms (2005, background): “As many developers are motivated by social factors (Raymond, 1999a; Himanen, 2001 ), firms have to provide stimulating challenges and fun projects for developers and at the same time create products that are simple enough to attract users.”
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects (2009, background): “Motives to Participate in Open Source Software Projects Motives to participate related literature Software use value [20, 25, 35, 49, 55, 60, 63, 65] Status and recognition [25, 28, 35, 47, 49, 55, 63] Learning [25, 26, 28, 61, 63, 65] Personal enjoyment [25, 28, 49, 55, 65] Reciprocity [25, 35, 55]”
Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving (2008, background): “In the hacker ethic, information strives to be free and hackers toil passionately to learn about it, manipulate it, and keep it free (Himanen, 2001; Raymond, 2003).”
Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development (2012, background): “For example: Why do individuals found new or fork (split up) existing OSS communities? Why do we observe a wide heterogeneity of communities and philosophies within OSS (Himanen, 2001; Moody, 2001)? There are, for example, distinct differences in ideology and values between pragmatic OSS enthusiasts”
Biohackers: The Politics of Open Science (2013, background): “According to Pekka Himanen (Himanen and Torvalds 2001), within the information society the hacker ethic challenges the Protestant work ethic, and it is ‘an alternative spirit’ characterised by passion, freedom, social worth, openness, activity, caring and creativity.”
New Media, Counter Publicity and the Public Sphere (2003, methodology): “…but relied upon free software for the operating system, web server and databases, thus benefiting from the shareware history of the internet (for a discussion of the importance of the hacker ethic, see Himanen (2001)) A small computer service company, encoding.com, donated web space and bandwidth.”
Impact of license choice on Open Source Software development activity (2009, background): “The existence of this definite ethical body shaped the so-called “culture of hackerdom” (Himanen, 2001; Levy, 1984).”
Open Source Software User Communities: A Study of Participation in Linux User Groups (2006, unknown): “—Linus Torvalds (Himanen 2001, p. xiii)”