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Law is just another programming language to learn. All hackers, worried about legal retaliation in their mission to make/keep information free, should learn it.
by anonbanker 12y ago
Law is just another programming language to learn. All hackers, worried about legal retaliation in their mission to make/keep information free, should learn it.
Unless you want to end up like Aaron Swartz.
- rhino369 12y agoI've learned programming languages and the law; and I don't really find them all that similar. You get to define all your language and the logic is formal. I'd argue trying to be your lawyer is more like trying to be your own doctor. Don't do it unless you want to end up like Steve Jobs.
- anonbanker 12y agoEveryone that claims to know the law seems unanimous in their wish that no outsider learn it, or die a painful death. Steve Jobs had a very strong understanding of law and commerce fwiw.
- anonbanker 12y agoI would like to submit the above as an example of anti-intellectualism on HN. I encourage people to learn, and was downvoted for it.