Steven Levy’s hacker ethic was based on positive attitude, total freedom and extreme accessibility of information. In his theory everything should be free and available for everyone in every time. He also stated that no one should trust the authorities and the hackers should be judged by their hacking/actions not by their age, degrees etc. What I liked in his statements the the positivity and he’s belief that everything should be free and accessible for everyone at all the time, with our restriction . That would be an ideal situation if it would work, but there has to be restrictions and also authorities who create and maintain them and observe that everything works. "Children need to be guided and criminals restrained" says it all.. Internet is full of content that is not suitable for kids and also too much content for criminals to use if that content would be free and legal to use.
I also both agree and disagree with the point that all the information should be free. Back then it was totally understandable that everything was free because there wasn’t so much context available. Nowadays it’s nice to find all the information what is out there but on the other hand those sources, articles and news haven’t emerged there by themselves, there is always a person behind them, a person who is getting maybe even his living from it. So in that case I totally understand that some information is restricted or behind a subtraction or some little payment. In last points he mentioned that people are able to use computers to create and that the computers can change ones life. I have to agree with these last states too, because computers and the usage of different softwares make our life easier, gives opportunity to create or test something new and we can rely on it’s magical world when we are bored and access content that entertains us at that point. I personally have got new friends trough internet, found events that I wouldn’t normally go and other stuff, so I could say also computers and internet has changed maybe not my life but affected it much.
At the nineties Eric S. Raymond stated that to identify a hacker the conditions of attitude, skills and status should all be true. He also gave several advices how to become a hacker - main points were to learn how to program, use several different kind of softwares, knowledge of English and extra points if you could have a certain style while doing it. In my opinion the way you look or behave shouldn't affect to the fact are you a hacker or not. I think it's more important what you think about yourself and how skillful and motivated you are. People are so different so there can't be only one definition how a hacker look or behave like.
What comes to the Linus Law that stated that hackers are driven by the though of survival, social life and entertainment, is interesting to be honest. Like Linus Torvalds mentioned in the text those can be seen as the basic needs of human being and I agree with it, because in general all we do nowadays with computer are for surviving(work), social life(Facebook) and entertainment(Netflix).
Pekka Himanen shared the hacker ethic into seven categories which are passion, freedom, work ethic, money ethic, network ethic, caring and creativity. I like how he has separated all the sections and described them too. I think the most important point of his categories is the first one; passion. Always whatever we do a little bit more than something daily basis we have some kind of passion for it that drives us forward and maintains the interest towards it. That is true in hacking and other computing too, when you are passioned about it, then you have more energy to solve problems and explore the internet.
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