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The Hacker Emblem was first proposed in October 2003 by Eric S. Raymond, who claimed a need for a unifying and recognizable symbol for his perception of hacker culture. This does not refer to the hackers breaking into computers, but to the hacker culture around BSD, MIT, GNU, Linux, Perl, etc.; that is, the community around free software and open source.
Raymond suggests that "by using this emblem, you express sympathy with hackers' goals, hackers' values, and the hacker way of living".
The image itself is a representation of a glider formation in Conway's Game of Life.
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External links
- The Glider: Proposal for a Hacker Emblem Contains more information on the Hacker Emblem proposal, including SVG and TeX sources and FAQs.
- "How To Become a Hacker" A document explaining the hacker culture.
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