Editing Hacker ethic (section)

==Levy's "true hackers"==
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Levy identifies several "true hackers" who significantly influenced the hacker ethic. Some well-known "true hackers" include:

* [[Bill Gosper]]: [[Mathematician]] and hacker
* [[Richard Greenblatt (programmer)|Richard Greenblatt]]: [[Programmer]] and early designer of [[Lisp machine|LISP machines]]
* [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]]: Co-founder of the [[MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab]] and [[Stanford AI Laboratory]]
* [[Jude Milhon]]: Founder of the [[cypherpunk]] movement, senior editor at ''[[Mondo 2000]]'', and co-founder of [[Community Memory]]
* [[Richard Stallman]]: Programmer and political activist who is well known for [[GNU]], [[Emacs]] and the [[Free Software Movement]]

Levy also identified the "hardware hackers" (the "second generation", mostly centered in [[Silicon Valley]]) and the "game hackers" (or the "third generation"). All three generations of hackers, according to Levy, embodied the principles of the hacker ethic. Some of Levy's "second-generation" hackers include:

* Steve Dompier: [[Homebrew Computer Club]] member and hacker who worked with the early [[Altair 8800]]
* [[John Draper]]: A legendary figure in the computer programming world. He wrote [[EasyWriter]], the first word processor.
* [[Lee Felsenstein]]: A hardware hacker and co-founder of [[Community Memory]] and Homebrew Computer Club; a designer of the [[Sol-20]] computer
* Bob Marsh: A designer of the [[Sol-20]] computer
* [[Fred Moore (activist)|Fred Moore]]: Activist and founder of the [[Homebrew Computer Club]]
* [[Steve Wozniak]]: One of the founders of [[Apple Computer]]

Levy's "third generation" practitioners of hacker ethic include:

* John Harris: One of the first programmers hired at On-Line Systems (which later became [[Sierra Entertainment]])
* [[Ken Williams (gaming)|Ken Williams]]: Along with wife [[Roberta Williams|Roberta]], founded On-Line Systems after working at IBM – the company would later achieve mainstream popularity as [[Sierra Entertainment|Sierra]].