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* Access to computers — and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works — should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!

* All information should be free.

* Mistrust authority — promote decentralization.

* Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position.

* You can create art and beauty on a computer.

* Computers can change your life for the better.

… free and open source software allows hackers to access the code used to create the software to improve or reuse it. In effect the free and open source software movements embody all of the hacker ethics.

— Wikipedia on Hacker ethic

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[10] Hacker here means a highly skilled programmer, not a computer criminal. — Me

The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them. — Eric S. Raymond

“In academia, a “hacker” is a person who follows a spirit of playful cleverness and enjoys programming.”

– Wikipedia on Hacker (academia)

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