Information does *NOT* want to be free. If it did indeed *want* free as 'cyberpunks' are so fond as saying, it would be free, and it would be free of its own accord no less.

The notion that Information wants to be free is a perversion of the Hacker Ethic. The notion that Information wants to be free makes a passive approach to the Free Flow of Information justifiable. The conerstone of the Hacker Ethic "Information should be free" does not illicit a passive response. To live by the Ethic is to devote time, energy, whatever else neccessary to the *liberation* of Information.

The anthropormorphising of Information only hindersthe Free Flow of Information. Information is the *tool* not the ends. When the complete and total Free Flow of Information does indeed occur, and the Information is not utilized, what good will come of it?

Such notions such as the Free Flow being the ends, and the anthropormorphic desires of Information seem to be in accord with the Hacker Ethic. In actuallity, these attitudes are contrary if not enemies to the Hacker Ethic. Subtle enemies. As cults can be a conterfiet representation of an orthodox religion, sometimes seeming to be in accord with orthodoxy, are in reality, beyond the surface representation, are not in accord with, but an enemy of orthodoxy. The wolf in sheeps clothing.