[strikelaserclaw]

The hacker spirit is about curiosity and tinkering with stuff to understand how it works, it is about the beauty of imagining and exploring new ideas and building them (whether they be useful or not). The hacker spirit is not about writing crud apps to maximize business ROI for your company, it is not about trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find an idea (a social media app for X) to make yourself and your investors rich. As soon as money flowed into tech, everything changed, and PG was most definitely responsible for that change in part.