When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.
Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of course it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.
Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.
That’s long gone, especially around here. YC is YC.
It’s sad the best we could do in terms of community forum is a VC’s website.
VC "hackers" still think that information is free and fuck corporations, just as long as it's not "their" information or "their" corporation