This site is almost dead. If you want to know, how it will go on, visit me at my weblog imhorst.net. Most postings are in German, some will be in English. You will find the english articles and the english postings on the right side in the menu. Have fun.
“The ‘Lost Generation’ of the Music Industry” is a short article about the question: Who does the music industry actually call the “lost generation”? In spite of all lamentations this “Generation D” is not really lost. The young customers’ habits of consumption have changed, but the music industry tries to adapt the customers to their business modell, instead of adapting their products to the customers. This paper is the translation of my article “Die ‘verlorene Generation’ der Musikindustrie”.
“Die Anarchie der Hacker — Richard Stallman und die Freie-Software-Bewegung” (The Anarchy of Hackers — Richard Stallman and the free software movement) is my master's thesis published by the Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag. For the blurb I wrote the following: “What does the hacker ethic have to do with anarchism? Why does Richard Stallman, an outstanding personality of the free software movement, described himself as an anarchist? We should not imagine the anarchists of the Free Software Movement to be like the cartoon image: A scruffy looking lunatic, with a crazy glint in his eyes and bristling with weapons. On the contrary: Instead of chaos, Stallman postulates a new form of order for the intellectual property in the terms of the hacker ethic — the access to knowledge should be free, decentralized, anti-bureaucratic and anti-authoritarian.”
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