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When did this ethical issue happen? Up until a few years ago, my feeling was that hackers had the high horse regarding ethics, considering free software movemen
by emilsedgh 8y ago
When did this ethical issue happen? Up until a few years ago, my feeling was that hackers had the high horse regarding ethics, considering free software movement, crypto movements, etc.
Did hackers lose their ethics when money was poured in?
- csydas 8y agoThe answer is that the "hacker ethos" is just a masquerade with SV in order to try to persuade other professionals and conditon them to approve of such behavior and participate. Sure there's money at play, but the hacker ethos espoused by many SV startups and companies is lip service to appeal to potential candidates and vocal members of a said community. It's marketing, and regrettably people eat it up while thinking they're above such chicanery and tricks.
- pgeorgi 8y agoThere are hackers outside the bay area and venture capital space.
- Sylos 8y agoHackers do have the high horse. People working at Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al are not hackers, they're workforce in a corporate environment.
- finnthehuman 8y ago"Hackers" lost their ethics after an openly anti-ethics VC appropriated the label and gave it to his followers. > They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. If that quote doesn't scare you, imagine it coming from the mouth of the head of whichever political party you like less. Or whatever position you see as a cartoon bad guy (e.g. Wall Street CEO).
- zaarn 8y agoSV parades the hacker ethics like some serial killer who wears the faces of their victims to show everyone how pretty they are now. What Google, Facebook, etc. wear as hacker ethic is so divorced from some of the principles that it's just cruel.