Reading that article, I noticed a few things. First, it's #4 on the list. On the other hand, #1 is "The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be sol

Reading that article, I noticed a few things. First, it's #4 on the list. On the other hand, #1 is "The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved". Second, it sounds less like "the hacker ethic was created as a response to authoritarianism" (which is what OP asserts) and more like "authoritarianism is incompatible with the hacker ethic, so don't support it", which is a very different proposition.