? Are you a hacker ? - ReDragon [ MORE ]
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| The hacker Ethic | ||||||||
| Hackers, not so many believed, revolutionized the computer industry. It was them, with their inquisitive mind, that began to search and invent new ways of better computing. Thus prompted Steven Wozniak to build the Apple computer. Thus prompted Richard Stallman to establish GNU products, aka free software, utilities. Hackers have a heart for knowing, for exploring. Thus limiting their resources, putting barricades over what could be a big source of information, could make a hacker rebellious, destructive. All thru the years, hackers have been vigilant fighting beaucracy, and anything that limits one's resource of information. All thru the years, hackers, conscious or not, have been following what could have been called, The Hacker Ethic. | ||||||||
| Access to computers - and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works - should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative� - Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and interesting things. They resent any person, physical barrier, or law that tries to keep them from doin this....None of the hackers, who were as a rule scrupulously honest in other matters, seemed to equate this with "stealing." A willful blindness. | ||||||||
| All information should be free� - If you dont have access to the information you need to improve things, how can you fix them ? A free exchange of information allowed for greater overall creativity. Say, you were working on a program, its code could be spread in a way that someone might work on them, improving them ,debugged to perfection. | ||||||||
| Mistrust Authority - promote decentralization� - The best way to promote this free exchange of information is to have an open system....the last thing you need is bureaucracy. Bureaucracies are flawed systems, dangerous in that they cannot handle the exploratory impulse of true hackers. The most obvious superiority of a decentralized system would be that people could follow their interests, and if along the way they discovered a flaw in the system, they could embark on an ambitious surgery. | ||||||||
| Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as deress, age, race or position� - Clear enough, hackers care less about the superficial charateristic of a person but cared more on his potential to advance the general state of hacking. | ||||||||
| You can create art and beauty on a computer� - Progmming shouldn't be enough. The way you write the program should be well regarded. Program elegance and style shoule be considered. A large program could be bummed (i.e. "reduced") further through developing a cleverly designed algorigthm - that kind of beauty. | ||||||||
| Computers can change your life for the better� - This belief was subtly manifest. Yet this premise deminated the everyday behavior of the hackers. Like an Aladdin's Lamp, you can make it to do your bidding. | ||||||||
| Other points of interest : | ||||||||
| ? The Conscience of a Hacker - The Mentor 1983 [ MORE ] ? Are you a hacker ? - ReDragon [ MORE ] |
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| Disclaimer : The information above was taken from "Hackers : Heroes of the Computer Revolution (c)" authored by Steven Levy and published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. | ||||||||