The Hacker Culture In The Modern World

The community of computer specialists has been changing the world since the creation of first computational device. The way development goes depends not only on technical skills of hackers, their ideals and views also take essential part of progress. There were several generations of hackers and each of them promoted different ideas. The hacker ethic of early days focused specifically on their interests and there were no such needs as communicative skills. The main ideology was "all information should be free" and I strongly disagree with this statement. Non-profit everything stops the progress and leaves no motivation to support "boring" software.

In 90's next generation of the culture has started acknowledging a demand for well-supported communication in hackers groups. It led to more healthy relationships and lifestyle within the culture. Eric S. Raymond put attention to necessity of skills which set development as a specialist over attitude and passion.

The Linus' Law

I really believe debates about open-source software have to be more flexible. People tend to divide everything on black and white and here it's not going to work out. Making all information paid by definition is a horrible idea but when it comes to user-friendly, regularly updating software, I consider this as a real value and users should pay for it.

To summarize the depiction of the hacker culture is fascinating and attracts me a lot while being part of seems alien and not really relevant. I think today in most cases curiosity and desire to become a pro in computer and everything related to it, come from personal interests