Thursday, October 29, 2009

Week 5-1: Hacker Ethic

A funny and intriguing definition or term I found when browsing the Jargon File lists the characteristics of hackers told by themselves. The term is "You know you've been hacking too long when". And from the list another great letter combination "SO". Funny was first of all to find a term like that and also the fact that hackers have reported those measures themselves, noting that they have been hacking for too long.

Hacker Ethic is widely found in today's web in several portals and communities. While looking around in the web to read more about hacker ethic and the usage I found an example of the "Real World" hacker ethic in wine production. A blog called Open Business discusses the implementation of hacker ethic in producing innovative wines using the shared technology by other producers. So some great Sauvignon Blanc was created in South Africa using Kiwi and Aussie technology - great produc from mundane sources.

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