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Etats-Unis
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The New York Times
"[Himanen's] survey of the core components of the hacker ethic
... is as comprehensive and instructive as any to date ... Himanen
has a powerful grasp on that strangely intoxicating contradiction
that is open-source." (The
New York Times)
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Slashdot.org
"The Hacker Ethic is a brilliant book. ... this little book
blows away the myth that getting important things done requires
stodgy and outmoded forms of organization, or a slavish devotion
to work. Just the opposite -- Himanen demonstrates with modern and
historical examples that there's a sea change underway in the way
that work happens. ... This book will be read, re-read and passed
on -- if you're employed by someone else, I suggest reading it and
(as applicable) giving your copy to your boss, former boss or future
boss." (Slashdot.org)
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Slate
"The Hacker Ethic is engagingly written and provocative,
and indubitably commendable in its vision of a transformation of
how all of us relate to our working life ... We should all be more
like hackers." (Slate)
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The Star-Ledger
"[T]his is a wonderful little
book, engaging, impassioned and lucid." (The
Sunday Star-Ledger)
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"[I]ntriguing insight
into how computer specialists look at the world ... as computer
technology advances, the hacker ethic is a way of living that is
becoming more prevalent. Everyone would benefit from being exposed
to it." (St.
Louis Post-Dispatch)
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
"[S]prightly,
ruminative essay about cyberethics. ... The Hacker Ethic
is a heartbreaking work of staggering idealism, a welcome hacker-as-hippie
reminder in an era when dot-com despair keeps obscuring the original
non-commercial ethos of the Web. ... The Hacker Ethic rewards
readers by making its points in the playful and creative spirit
it promotes." (The
Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Sarasota Herald Tribune
"Thanks
to Pekka Himanen, I have been enlightened. Hackers are good. They
play with things until they break, but from that breakage comes
insight that drives development." (Sarasota
Herald Tribune)
Royaume-Uni
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Financial Times
"[The Hacker Ethic] is a thoroughly spirited and commendable
framework for human creativity" (Financial
Times)
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Scotland on Sunday
"[The Hacker Ethic] provide[s] an antidote to the dotcom
brainwashing we get from politicians and business people, who have
much to say about the commercial possibilities of the world wide
web, but nothing about its cultural potential." (Scotland
on Sunday)
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The New Statesman
"To learn
more about the ideology of the information age, you should also
read Pekka Himanen's The Hacker Ethic. The book is introduced by
Linus Torvalds, the Finnish software writer who created Linux, the
operating system that now represents the most serious challenge
to Microsoft's Windows. In fact, 'created' is not quite right. Torvalds
is a hacker, in the best, non-destructive sense of the word, rather
than a businessman. From the beginning, Linux was conceived as an
open system. Its 'source code' is available to anybody who wants
to tinker with it (a good deal of the Microsoft issue hinges on
its refusal to release its source code). As a result of this unpaid
tinkering by thousands of hackers, Linux has become a spectacularly
stable system - although, probably for the same reason, it is not
yet sufficiently user-friendly to attract the average computer user.
This open ideal, in which nobody owns anything and people work unpaid,
becomes in Himanen's book a new model for work. Good hacking - as
opposed to what Himanen calls 'cracking' - is a form of intensive,
creative play. Historically, he locates it as a move away from the
masochistic Protestant work ethic and back to something like the
pre-Reformation idea of work as an almost casual aspect of a life
lived in the light of a higher truth - salvation in Catholicism,
freedom in the information age. Gates's betrayal was that, having
started out as a hacker, he became a full-blooded Protestant. In
Microsoft, 'the profit motive has taken precedence over passion'.
I think there is a general truth here. Information technology is
changing work patterns, and much of what Himanen says about the
peculiar nature of information technology is accurate. But the picture
he paints is bleaker than he realises. The hacker ideology is anarchic
and, as a result, it offers nothing to those excluded from the new
technology by inclination or inability. Furthermore, its love of
the dissemination of information makes it inimical to the transmission
of knowledge. By what standards are we to judge this flood of information?
The hacker, being too radically anti-authoritarian, cannot say.
The game is given away by Manuel Castells in his epilogue to the
book: 'Cultural expression,' he writes, 'becomes patterned around
the kaleidoscope of a global, electronic hypertext.' Or, to put
it another way, in the new world, nobody will recognise the name
of Joseph K." (The
New Statesman)
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The Times
"ANY BOOK written
about hackers and the world of computer programming must first overcome
a number of misconceptions: the first is the word hacker, which
today is more often associated with computer crime than with innovation;
the second is that computer programmers are regarded, perhaps unfairly,
as a tribe of nerds.
There is much to commend the hacker philosophy; hackers believe
in a Utopia where information is shared, problems are solved and
people are helped. Only by pooling knowledge are hackers able to
indulge their passion for solving computer riddles. Strange though
it may seem, hackers simply enjoy the experience of distributing
the lessons that they have learnt. "The reward for participating
in this discussion is peer recognition," writes Himanen. It
is the closest Silicon Valley has come to socialism, and the hacker
value system stands in stark contrast to the undignified stampede
that we have seen in the Internet goldrush.
True hackers make a million out of a program and then give it all
up to teach children. They loathe Bill Gates, whom they regard as
a traitor because he discovered so much and then let only those
who were willing to pay benefit from that knowledge. This book confirms
that hackers inhabit a world ungoverned by conventional business
practices and that the great discoveries of the computer age are
made in the back rooms with the burning of much midnight oil and
not in the boardrooms of multinational corporations. " (The
Times)
Allemagne
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"So reibungslos, wie gelegentlich zu fuerchten, werden sich
Revolutionaere womoeglich doch nicht in Unternehmer verwandeln.
Gerade erst hat der finnische Technophilosoph Pekka Himanen gemeinsam
mit Linus Torvalds, dem Guru der open source, und dem Soziologen
Manuel Castells "The Hacker Ethic" (Random House, New
York) veroeffentlicht. Darin wird ein neues Arbeitsethos entworfen,
das nicht bloss Max Webers allfaellige protestantisch-kapitalistische
Variante im Staub zuruecklaesst, sondern sich anschickt, Augustinus'
suendiges Freitagsmalochen mit der paradiesischen Unterhaltung des
Sonntags zu vereinbaren. In der network ethic, von Kennern zu "Nethic"
verkuerzt, soll der Mammon im brueder- und schwesterlichen Teilen
von Information entmachtet werden. "Es gibt keine technologischen
Revolutionen ohne kulturelle Transformation", schreibt Himanen.
Aber auch er kann eine gewisse Unsicherheit bei der Umsetzung seines
heilbringenden "Informationalismus" nicht verbergen".
(Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung)
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