Jul 4, 2026, 4:31 PM@idlestate @tante @ansuz you're absolutely right but *also* I think there really was an "if we build it they will come" expectation among the early free software pioneers -- an expectation that computers would become more widespread and that this would *of itself* cause more people to become hackers, without any effort on their part put into making that an attractive prospect. all they had to do was make the *capability* of hacking software available to anyone who could afford the hardware.