[hackerspaces] Differences between hackerspaces and fablabs

[Ben Brown]

On 5/12/2014 8:16 PM, maxigas wrote:
> I would argue that everything that came after hackerspaces is merely
> capitalising on the struggles and works of hackers to invent an
> attitude to technology which prooved to be immensely innovative and
> incredibly excititing, while deluting its politics and denying their
> roots because they don't have to figth for it the same way any more.

This is where you lost me. What has (detrimentally) changed now that the
concept of hackerspaces is becoming popular? I don't believe any space
has ever clung to the exact ideals and philosophies of another. Do you
believe that new spaces don't need to fight for existence?

Ben