Against my better judgment, I went through the archives to check for changes to the politics entry. As far as I can tell, this is the complete list of entries:

Against my better judgment, I went through the archives to check for changes to the politics entry. As far as I can tell, this is the complete list of entries: First entry, 1991-01-03: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.3.1.dos.txt http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.3.1.dos.txt > Vaguely left of center, except for the strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that almost all hackers are anti-authoritarian, thus both conventional conservatism and "hard" leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either a) be aggressively apolitical, or b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day. 1991-08-16: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.9.6.dos.txt http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.9.6.dos.txt > Vaguely left of center, except for the strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both conventional conservatism and `hard' leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day. (almost all -> tend to be) 1996-01-20: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-3.3.0.dos.txt http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-3.3.0.dos.txt > Vaguely liberal-moderate, except for the strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both conventional conservatism and `hard' leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day. (left of center -> liberal-moderate) 2003-05-10: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.0.dos.txt http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-4.4.0.dos.txt > Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism). There is a strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and `hard' leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day. (liberal-moderate -> moderate-to-neoconservative) In twelve years, he changed "vaguely left of center" to "liberal-moderate" to "recently moderate-to-neoconservative", none of which are positions that ESR identifies with. If this is the most egregious example of the problem you're describing, color me unconvinced.