[ryanlol]

I largely skimmed through the series, but the way this portrays the german hacker scene while simultaneously appearing to advocate for software patents feels very strange.

The series portrays these guys as the heroes, but in reality they just seem to be patent trolls who fortunately lost.

A lot of really cool retro tech stuff to spot though, they certainly weren’t lazy with this even if the politics of it seem weird.

[tagmaduut]

"patent trolls who fortunately lost"

It's of course okay to express this opinion. But given all the facts on the table dismissing them as mere patent trolls seems quite unfair. I encourage you to read up a bit on these people, who are/were i. a. accomplished art professors and programmers.

[SilicaAndPina]

Isn't that how all the people from computer clubs in the 90's turned out?

Like apple came from that shit, heck the entire state of hacking right now with corporation simping don't even get me started on "bug bounties" and "Responsible" disclosure