The Hacker Ethic

Edicions Destino has published the book "La ética del hacker y el espíritu de la era de la información", the Spanish translation of the essay "The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age" (Random House, 2001), by Pekka Himanen (Helsinki, 1973) with Linus Torvalds (Helsinki, 1969) and Manuel Castells (Hellín, Albacete 1942).

In the Book, the word hacker does not refer to computer criminals but what the word originally meant: a person who wants to do something that one is passionate about, something in which one can realize oneself creatively, and something in which one can build things for the good of all. The hacker ethic is a new work ethic questioning the old Protestant ethic.

Date of publication: 12/03/2002

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