E.S.Raymond. How To Become a Hacker. Impressions.

Link to the E.S.Raymond. How To Become a Hacker.

Why impressions, not review? Because impressions give to people first, unfiltered, pure sight to the things. The review is structured, cleaned of some emotions and with deeper analysis.

When I red the article, I imagined times, when whole IT world was something untouchable for common people and step by step the gates of this world were opened by enthusiasts to masses. Times, when such enthusiasts were like wizards.

For me, the article itself looks more like a How To become a human and how to stay a human. It's like a codex of some eastern martial art, which lead us to self improvement and openness as the starting point to everything and way to essential mastership in things you do. So the way of human improvement doesn't finish with achievement of basic skills, degree and title. It something deeper, in knowledge, vision and contribution to the world. It also looks for me like a guide, how to stay a human and keep society safe from degradation to human beings, without the need in statehood with authoritarian ways to suppress human nature by constraints in freedom.

As sublimation of whole article, I can take out the line that hacker is the synonym of well-balanced, highly-educated human with constant will to self-improvement to better version of himself.

The author of the impressions, not a hacker, but always was fond of alternative cultures, which give us other approach to things and meanings, than commercial one. For me, the alternative music project, the alternative open OS, the alternative version of something will always be better than the one, created for commercial distribution. I admire the things such people do. Thank you for keeping our world colored.*

Remarks:
* By colored I mean that the commercial approach in everything could lead us to unipolar, gray-shaded,pre-dictated vision in everything.