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Open original source ↗We should celebrate hacking, not cheating. Cheating quietly pockets extra Monopoly money (insider trading, plagiarism, inflated metrics). Hacking openly flips the game board, exposing rigged rules and inventing a better game for everyone: Wikipedia replaced Britannica, Airbnb monetized spare rooms, Linux openly challenged Windows.
Both break the rules, but hacking doesn’t compromise integrity. it reveals the old game wasn’t worth playing.