"The Hacker Attitude Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude. But if you think of cultivating hacker attitudes as just a way to gain acceptance in the culture, you'll miss the point. Becoming the kind of person who believes these things is important for you [...] not just intellectually but emotionally as well. So, if you want to be a hacker, repeat the following things until you believe them: ..."
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can.axis
16 years 6 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago
Hackers != Crackers & spam
This text is a must read, but it's ironic to find it here. This site is filled of links to bad proprietary software; it's just spam hoping to confuse you!
stargrave
16 years 6 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago
Not agreed
AFAIK this article (actually part of full one) is written by ESR himself. He can not be wrong. I slightly dislike open-source movement, as I support free software one. But I respect ESR very much - he is a real hacker.
I didn't find anything wrong here. There are no links in *article*. Just good recommendations to really free software (closing eyes on using Linux instead of GNU/Linux). Maybe there are links on site itself, but it is another subject.
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can.axis
16 years 6 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago
I agree with you
> Maybe there are links on site itself, but it is another subject.
That's what i wanted to point out. ESR & RMS are true hackers, and ESR himself is an Emacs lover. This article is a must read, but this site may be confusing... I realized that once the story has been posted...
stargrave
16 years 6 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago
Understand
Well, I didn't understant you then. You are fully right. As for me - I never look at everything around an article :-). Many sites can be confusing, but contain good things. From your point of view - I fully agree, sorry for misunderstanding.
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Killer_Python
16 years 6 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago
This article is very important.
I totally agree with this article.
4. Freedom is good.Hackers are naturally anti-authoritarian. Anyone who can give you orders can stop you from solving whatever problem you're being fascinated by -- and, given the way authoritarian minds work, will generally find some appallingly stupid reason to do so. So the authoritarian attitude has to be fought wherever you find it, lest it smother you and other hackers.
This is a great point.
kiba
16 years 6 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago
Don't be fooled by this
Don't be fooled by this site! It is plagiarized from ESR.
See the real article at ESR's site.
It have javascript that disable your ability to right-click! Sleazy!
VOTE DOWN THE STORY! We can't let ourself be defrauded.
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can.axis
16 years 6 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago
ESR's site
@dave: please, could you change the url to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html (thanks to Kiba) ;)
dave
16 years 6 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago
Story unpromoted
I have demoted this submission so that people can go and vote up the other submission:
How To Become A Hacker (ESR Original)
can.axis
16 years 6 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago
How To Become A Hacker (ESR Original)
This original article has been submitted to fsdaily, thanks to stattek!! ==>
How To Become A Hacker (ESR Original)
(sorry, i've been fooled... Shame on me...)