[rauljara]

  Trying to brand this as a "new" hacker ethos is just abusing the recognition of the original to push your own (completely different) ideas and agenda.
  I'm not going to call it entirely disingenuous, but it does come off with a bad smell of politics.

You didn't say this (and I'm not asserting that you believe it), but it's easy to read this statement and have the feeling that the original "hacker ethos" was devoid of politics or trying to push an agenda. But it was totally politics and it was totally trying to push an agenda.

One may prefer the original to this new ethos, but anyone claiming to speak for a large group of people is engaging in politics. To borrow an idea from the essay, you are forgetting the diversity of that group's opinions when you claim it can be boiled down into short pithy statements.