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In general: If you're an outcast and you don't ostracise yourself from a community that has grown large, you are not really an outcast.

In detail: Hackers can't complain that their movement has grown and developed facets they don't like. Hackers are mischievous, hackers are smart, hackers are always ahead of the pack discovering and inventing cool new things. Therefore, hackers, by their very self-definition, can't be called hackers anymore, they must have moved on elsewhere and developed new labels for themselves. If they haven't, and have become complacent and jaded with newcomers, they have ceased to be true hackers.

(I use "they", because one should never self-apply the term hacker :)



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