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>will be done for the sole purpose of achieving interoperability

It's for solely achieving interoperability. It only covers the development of the emulator. Using it to get a picture for explaining what a game is in the blog post is not DRM being broken for solely achieving interoperability.

>What ever happened to the hacker ethos behind DeCSS and the anti-"illegal numbers" movement?

In practice the idea that you can't break laws if you are doing things via a computer is fundamentally flawed.