> "A few decades ago, tech, science and liberalism were bedfellows in the Bay Area." A few decades ago was before the meteoric internet and mobile web boom and

> "A few decades ago, tech, science and liberalism were bedfellows in the Bay Area." A few decades ago was before the meteoric internet and mobile web boom and the deluge of non-hackers with CS degrees and MBA types with dollar signs in their eyes that flooded into the tech industry. The hacker ethos turned from "information wants to be free" into "f--- you, pay me" in only a few short years simply because the old guard was diluted away to nothingness by so many newcomers.