Edicions Destino
has published the book "La ética del hacker y el espíritu
de la era de la información", the Spanish translation of the essay
"
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of
the Information Age" (
Random House,
2001), by
Pekka Himanen
(Helsinki, 1973) with
Linus
Torvalds (Helsinki, 1969) and
Manuel
Castells (Hellín, Albacete 1942).
In the Book, the word hacker does not refer to computer criminals but
what the word originally meant: a person who wants to do something that
one is passionate about, something in which one can realize oneself creatively,
and something in which one can build things for the good of all. The hacker
ethic is a new work ethic questioning the old Protestant ethic.