Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Technology and pleasure: Considering hacking constructive

1999; University of Illinois at Chicago; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5210/fm.v4i2.647

1396-0466

Gisle Hannemyr,

Open Source Software Innovations

Hackersare identified as a specific subgroup of computer workers. The history of the hacker community is told. The explicit and implicit ideologies expressed through hacking is analyzed and presented. Computer artifacts of origin both inside and outside the hacker community are compared and the embedded properties of the resulting artifacts are inferred. Hacking is discussed in the context of being a method for system development. Finally, it is argued that this system development method under certain circumstances may yield superior software artifacts.