i hope that truer words have never been written:

“All those restless hackers, busy twisting the English language up and down with their obscure puns, busy donating their energy to public projects and passions — they’re still out there, following their coding stars. Their curiosity helped build the Internet, helped make code like Linux, BSD and Perl flourish to the point that the commercial world had to take notice.

But now that the commercial world is no longer quite as obsessed, that doesn’t mean they’ve gone away. They’ve just turned their energies toward even cooler stuff…”

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