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Hacker Ethic

Das ist ein Auszug aus Hacker Ethik von Steven Levy und ist aktueller denn je -> Wikileaks

  • All information should be free.
  • —linking directly with access, information needs to be free for hackers to fix, improve, and reinvent systems. A free exchange of information allows for greater overall creativity.[7] In the hacker viewpoint, any system could benefit from an easy flow of information,[8] a concept known as transparency in the social sciences. AsStallman notes, "free" refers to unrestricted access; it does not refer to price.[9]
  • Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.
  • The best way to promote the free exchange of information is to have an open system that presents no boundaries between a hacker and his quest for knowledge. Hackers believe that bureaucracies, whether corporate, government, or university, are flawed systems.[8]

  • Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position.
    Inherent in the hacker ethic is a meritocratic system where superficiality is disregarded in esteem of skill. Levy articulates that criteria such as age, sex, race, position, and qualification are deemed irrelevant within the hacker community.[10] Hacker skill is the ultimate determinant of acceptance. Such a code within the hacker community fosters the advance of hacking and software development.
    Testament to the hacker ethic of equal opportunity,[11] L. Peter Deutsch, a twelve-year-old hacker, was accepted in the TX-0 community, though was not recognised by non-hacker graduate students.
  • Computers can change your life for the better.
  • Hackers felt that computers had enriched their lives, given their lives focus, and made their lives adventurous. Hackers regarded computers as Aladdin’s lamps that they could control.[15] They believed that everyone in society could benefit from experiencing such power and that if everyone could interact with computers in the way that hackers did, then the Hacker Ethic might spread through society and computers would improve the world.[16] The hacker succeeded in turning dreams of endless possibilities into realities. The hacker’s primary object was to teach society that "the world opened up by the computer was a limitless one" (Levy 230:1984)[14]

    from Wikipedia "Hacker Ethic"

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