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Not really. If you value your own work, have things you have chosen not to give away and therefore wouldn’t want someone else to steal them, then it makes logic
by seanhunter 4y ago
Not really. If you value your own work, have things you have chosen not to give away and therefore wouldn’t want someone else to steal them, then it makes logical sense to consider the value of other people’s work and not feel comfortable about using a stolen version.
Not everyone has to share a political point of view, so while some people are anarchists and are happy to just have a giant free-for all others believe in the concept of ownership. That isn’t a lack of curiosity or a professional buttoned-up money-chasing approach.
- int_19h 4y agoI think OP is lamenting the fact that the hacker culture shifted away from what you describe as "anarchism" as the mainstream position. It really was a lot more common among people who self-identified as hackers 20 years ago than it is today. More broadly speaking, I'd say that the cultural distinction between "hacker" and "corporate" was much wider then, and it manifested in this manner among others.
- seanhunter 4y agoI've been programming and part of "hacker" culture for over 40 years now so I get it. 20 years ago you would get people lamenting that 20 years before that everything was all hippy sunshine and rainbows and homebrew computer club, phreaking and shareware etc, and that wasn't true then just like it isn't now. I don't think anarchism has ever been the mainstream position at least never in my experience. It has always been present but always been fringe.