The Hacker's Code

"A hacker of the Old Code."

• Hackers come and go, but a great hack is forever.
• Public goods belong to the public.*
• Software hoarding is evil. Software does the greatest good given to the greatest number.
• Don't be evil.
• Sourceless software sucks.
• People have rights. Organizations live on sufferance.
• Governments are organizations.
• If it is wrong when citizens do it, it is wrong when governments do it.
• Information wants to be free. Information deserves to be free.
• Being legal doesn't make it right.
• Being illegal doesn't make it wrong.
• Subverting tyranny is the highest duty.
• Trust your technolust!

* 
Definition:
 A good is public if the marginal production cost is lower than the marginal billing cost.


Source : http://muq.org/~cynbe/hackers-code.html