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The new FCC ruling on Net Neutrality has compromised our civil liberties, and has re-define the internet as we know it. Those who know the internet, and was part of its unprecedented surge, knows, that the season why it became a vital force in their lives, is because content and resources such as: Chat rooms, social media, file sharing, music, and entertainment was at their fingertips just for the asking, with no password, or commercial process fee, Marvin's Underground Believe that these good old days are over. And the new internet that is emerging is stricly commercial taking away the good old sharing ethics and the spirit of human communications. This website is intended to preserve the Flame.
The Hacker Ethic and & SpiritHacker ethic is a term for the moral values and philosophy that are common in hacker culture. In other words, those who possess positive hacker ethic acknowledge that sharing information and data responsibly is very beneficial and helpful. Whilst the philosophy originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s–1960s, the term hacker ethic is attributed to journalist Steven Levy as described in his 1984 book titled Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. The key points within this ethic are access, freedom of information, and improvement to quality of life. While some tenets of hacker ethic were described in other texts like Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) by Ted Nelson, Levy appears to have been the first to document both the philosophy and the founders of the philosophy.
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The FCC has Challenge The Hacker EthicYou may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the rhythms of your creative work with the rhythms of the rest of your life so that they amplify each other. It is a fundamentally new work ethic that is revolutionizing the way business is being done around the world.
Without hackers there would be no universal access to e-mail, no Internet, no World Wide Web, but the hacker ethic has spread far beyond the world of computers. It is a mind-set, a philosophy, based on the values of play, passion, sharing, and creativity, that has the potential to enhance every individual’s and company’s productivity and competitiveness. Now there is a greater need than ever for entrepreneurial versatility of the sort that has made hackers the most important innovators of our day. Pekka Himanen shows how we all can make use of this ongoing transformation in the way we approach our working lives. excerpts From the Book: The Hacker Ethic |