A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.