Hmm.<br>I thought about this a bit before replying, and I'm cynical about that text by Zuckerberg. I think there are many ways to define The Hacker Way, and I think much of his 'hacker way' is at odds with what I have seen as hackerdom.<br>
<br>> Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic. <br>
Yeah, I dig that paragraph<br>
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> Hacking is also an inherently hands-on and active discipline <br>
- So yeah, Zuckerberg's words are spot on on for that one, but how
much of FaceBook is just creation? As far as I see, it's all
consumption.<br>
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<br>Hackers generally believe in libertarian, local and/or personal control. Zuckerberg's Facebook is very much about centralized control<br>Hacker culture is about granting, and removing trust, at one's own discresion. Zuckerberg (via facebook) wants you to always trust him.<br>
Hackers mostly believe decentralized is better than centralized.<br><br>Zuckerberg's 'The Hacker Way' has some thing's I agree with, but I cretainly don't see it as THE* way. I think Zuckerberg says a few things right. I think Facebook's action
(and Zuckerberg's actions) alight with some of those values, but not all
of them. Overall that whole speech is an advert toward DIY folks for
Facebook (not that's it's evil, it just is), and I think it's a bit
tone-deaf to the older school security/outsider/anti-authoritarian
audience. <br>
<br>Hack on,<br> - Far McKon<br><br><a href="http://www.FarMcKon.net" target="_blank">http://www.FarMcKon.net</a> "Creatively Maladjusted"<br>
<br>P.S. I had a *lot* of respect for the (sadly, rather bad) book 'A Hacker
Manifesto' simply because they avoided the definitive article 'The' If that article was 'Our Hacker Way' or 'Facebook's Hacker Way' I think I'd A-OK with it.<br>