In honor of hackerdom I'll be a bit of a pest and say that stoners already have that lesson covered. :) I think hackers reveal the unexamined difference betwee

In honor of hackerdom I'll be a bit of a pest and say that stoners already have that lesson covered. :) I think hackers reveal the unexamined difference between how people use something and what it does. E.g., people used copyright to give exclusivity to a particular publisher. But copyright itself doesn't "do" exclusivity. It instead gives the author the power to license the work as they see fit. So even if the license is a legal restatement of the golden rule, it is still backed by the full force of U.S. copyright law.