Security.  Hackers : Products

"It is by poking about inside current technology that hackers get ideas for the next generation. No thanks, intellectual homeowners may say, we don't need any outside help. But they're wrong. The next generation of computer technology has often - perhaps more often than not - been developed by outsiders. In 1977 there was no doubt some group within IBM developing what they expected to be the next generation of business computer. They were mistaken. The next generation of business computer was being developed on entirely different lines by two longhaired guys called Steve in a garage in Los Altos. At about the same time, the powers that be were cooperating to develop the official next generation operating system, Multics. But two guys who thought Multics excessively complex went off and wrote their own. They gave it a name that was a joking reference to Multics: Unix." "Good Bad Attitude" by Paul Graham, Why hackers - in the programmers' sense of the word as good programmers - view copyright laws as a threat to civil liberty : http://www.darwinmag.com/read/090104/hacker.html