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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...
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