The historical hacker culture was not exactly friendly towards large corporations and "suits" in general.

Unfortunately, the historical hacker culture is not the hacker culture for which this forum was created. Watching the culture clashes when expectations meet reality is always a hoot.

I heard about this community about a decade ago through the respect being paid to a legendary hacker from the (nineties?) I believe so I guess the forum adopted the culture. It sure is as close as I got to them, reading obituary threads, with folks telling tales of yore.