re where did the hacker ethic go i think the main reason is that in the good old hacker days of the young er gates and jobs of the world the computer was not as widespread a phenomenom as it is now with the increased popularity of the pc come a plethora of mundane business uses which required more practical minded and narrower focused programmers why be a hacker when you can get a good job programming databases or programs for accountants basically the yuppies caught up and disciplined the hackers and molded them in their own image carl christensen dept of computer science christen astro ocis temple edu temple university curiouser and curiouser lc philadelphia pa usa
