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> The hacker culture of “information wants to be free” is largely predicated on the librarian mantras of the same sentiment

Maybe? It is also a fact of reality. You need to look no further than the information in your cells, which has certainly spread extremely freely since the very first spodge of RNA to exist on this planet. The very concept of "locking down information" was something that humans had to invent, with mixed success historically.



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