“If the users don’t control the program, the program controls the users” - Richard Stallman
Currently learning about the origins of Hacker Culture documented by Aaron Van Wirdum in The Genesis Book
I’ve been conditioned to believe hackers are criminals who want to wreak havoc but the original hackers or ‘Hacks’ as they referred to themselves were a passionate group out of MIT who figured out how to access and edit the source code of the TX-0 and challenged each to make the computer perform increasingly difficult tasks.
They were well aware of the impact computers were going to have on the world, they developed a philosophical and ethical framework and were passionate about the necessity of open source software.
They could see the dangers of closed source software very early.
/ Tayne
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2024-06-09 10:52:13
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