"More generally, are many hackers libertarians?"<p>Possibly <i>slightly</i> more than the general population.  I used to see a lot of claims that libertarians were very common among hackers and geeks, but that's never seemed to pan out.  Even the sort of left-wing and right-wing people who call themselves "libertarians" because they like some civil liberties issue or hate taxes don't seem any more common than normal.<p>Mind, I don't hear those claims as much, anymore.