Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.

And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.