the hacker ethic found in today's world

hacker ethic, yesterday...today


I see all the free knowledge spreading communities around the web, as part of hacker ethics.
wikipedia, stackowerflow and all the open source tools and drivers that are made everyday. and there are people working on them actively, developing tools and answering questions and solving problems.
in this sense the hacker ethics is alive and moving forward. it may has changed a lot during recent years, but it is still natural as hackers are front line technology users and developers they should adopt to changes in the world. I also feel some new waves of hacker activity coming along with copy right and intellectual property issues. too much restriction on data sharing, monopolies on publishing and data privacy issues seem growing.