Hacker Ethic A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business

Pekka Himanenearned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Helsinki at the age of twenty. His ongoing mapping of the meaning of technological development has brought him into dialouge with academics, artists, ministers, and CEOs. Himanen works at the University of Helsinki and at the University of California at Berkeley. Linus Torvaldshas become one of the most respected hackers within the computer community for creating the Linux operating system in 1991 while a student at the University of Helsinki. Since then, Linux has grown into a project involving thousands of programmers and millions of users worldwide. Manuel Castellsis a professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of the highly acclaimed trilogy The Information Age and of The City of the Grassroots (winnter of the 1983 C. Wright Mills Award) and of more than twenty other books. From the Hardcover edition.Himanen, Pekka is the author of 'Hacker Ethic A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business' with ISBN 9780375758782 and ISBN 037575878X.