Steven Levy On The Hacker Spirit

I love Steven Levy's writing. It has shaped my life.

I found 'Hackers' when I was 16, read it over and over and decided to become a programmer. Then 6 years later, at 22, I read 'Artificial Life' and left my plum programming job to go into computational biology.

Well, I came back to programming eventually, but this guy can sell me anything.

One page read: http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/02/facebook-microsoft-apple-te...

Seeing as how Levy went from writing the excellent Hackers in the 80s to writing a book about how awesome iPods are in the 00s I was wondering if he'd suffered severe head trauma of some kind. Glad to hear he seems to have things figured out.

"He's like the early hackers at MIT such as [open source advocate Richard] Stallman who fought for people not to have passwords or secrets." .. and now fights for people not to confuse "Free Software" and "Open Source"

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...