Hacker ethics and the spirit of information

Pekka Himanen (b. 1973) - Finnish sociologist, theorist and researcher of the information era. His “hacker ethics” is a real programmatic manifesto of information - the concept of public reconstruction based on free access to any information. The book, written back in the late 1990s, did not lose value as a monument of the romantic era, when the structure of the rapidly developing Internet was perceived by many as the prototype of the free network society of the future. It is no coincidence that the prologue and epilogue for this book were written respectively by Linus Torvalds - the creator of Linux, the most famous OS based on the open code, and Manuel Castels - the leading theorist of the information society.