> This entire article is ridiculous pedantry to me Then you missed the point. Kids grow up reading "real hacker culture" and these ethics are one of the first

> This entire article is ridiculous pedantry to me Then you missed the point. Kids grow up reading "real hacker culture" and these ethics are one of the first things I assimilated when incubating. They are not ethics at all, but justifications and she broke it down pat. > Programs are tools. Is a hammer a 'carefully carved out version of reality? There's a similar thread on /. about third party libraries. Programs are universally built on APIs (software or hardware). Yes, they are carved out of their originating context and they break down (as per the PDP-1 story) over time.