[wiml]

Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception. And they've always been "liberal", in the broadest sense of that word, spanning libertarianism to neoliberalism to latte liberals to left-liberals to fully automated luxury gay space communism. But it's all political.

[1337shadow]

> Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception

Prove it.

> But it's all political

It's not, it's technical.