Hacker Ethics
summary
The talk traces the history and real-world effects of hacker ethics by citing technologies and cases: the GNU project (1983) and the GPL (1989) introducing a viral free-software license, the Linux kernel (1991) combining with GNU to power servers, phones and embedded devices, Arduino (2006) bringing openness to hardware, and WordPress powering 25% of the web. It also covers legal and political outcomes—Moodle defeating a patent claim in 2006, high-profile incidents like Snowden, WikiLeaks and Aaron Swartz (including the 4.8 million-document download case)—and community activity such as one group running 18 hackathons to date.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Personal introduction
- 3:15What is a hacker?
- 6:49Hacker philosophy
- 7:10Hacking origins
- 9:59Key historical milestones
- 10:20Richard Stallman and GNU
- 18:40GPL license and free software
- 21:11Linus Torvalds and Linux
- 25:06Tim Berners-Lee and the web
- 26:32Eric Raymond and ethics
- 28:39Modern hacker ethics
- 30:26Creative Commons and free culture
- 31:07Wikipedia and open knowledge
- 32:51Matt Mullenweg and WordPress
- 33:55Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
- 35:19Aaron Swartz and activism
- 36:22Edward Snowden and surveillance
- 37:28Open hardware and Arduino
- 38:59Tesla and open patents
- 39:40Hacker ethics summary
- 41:50Final reflections
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