[CobrastanJorji]

Note for the hacker crowd: they don't mean free as in speech. They mean free as in beer that fell off a truck.

[stackghost]

When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.

Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.

Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.

[dudefeliciano]

VC "hackers" still think that information is free and fuck corporations, just as long as it's not "their" information or "their" corporation

[redrove]

That’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC.

It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.

[flexagoon]

"Beer that fell off a truck" has a somewhat negative connotation, but FMHY-listed sites are generally not only free, but also high quality, especially the starred ones. Nowadays when I'm looking for a service to do something I just search FMHY instead of a search engine. Much better results.

[jl6]

“Fell off the back of a truck” is a euphemism for stolen goods; it’s not so much about quality (indeed warez releases are often stripped of ads/launchers/annoyances, rendering them very high quality).

[numbers_guy]

They mean free as in a poem that can be recited by anyone who has listened to it previously.

[aardv44rk]

Speech isn't a medium in this context.