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Good Bad Attitude

Posted by timothy on from the properly-improper dept.

teidou writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay titled 'Good Bad Attitude' talking about the hacker attitude toward rules and government regulation of Intellectual Property. Choice quote: "(Hackers) can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.""

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  1. Re:Old school hackers vs. new school hackers. by iminplaya · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stealing software suddenly seems alot less cool when it might be your software that's being stolen.

    Get it right. It's being copied, not stolen. What's being taken is control. Something which you have no right over. Just because the gov't provides you your monopoly, doesn't mean you have any natural right to control an idea once you express it. It's a gov't service. And a pretty corrupt one at that.

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