Agreed, it's hard to see this as some sort of "hacker respect hacker" in light of MIT's other actions.

It's very hard to extract Robert Tappan Morris from the context of his father being an extremely powerful man when trying to figure out how he managed to get away with what he did.

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LukeShu 2 days ago | parent [-]

At the same time, it's easy to believe that MIT of 2013 is very different than MIT of 1988.

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jszymborski 2 days ago | parent [-]

While that's entirely possible, MIT was established in 1861. I think the old boys club was established long before 1988.

	▲	pyuser583 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I’m pretty sure MIT had a “state school” stigma until after WWII. Vandaveer Bush made sure they got lots of war research.