This is just asking for a bunch of territorial squabbling about who is a real hacker and who is a poser. Arguments about identity tend to produce lots of heat and very little light.
(As to Eric S. Raymond and his incessant volunteering to speak for all hackers: No comment.)
It's also explicitly not asking for that. I quote from TFA:
> When you put the glider emblem on your web page, or wear it on clothing, or display it in some other way, you are visibly associating yourself with the hacker culture. This is not quite the same thing as claiming to be a hacker yourself -- that is a title of honor that generally has to be conferred by others rather than self-assumed. But by using this emblem, you express sympathy with hackers' goals, hackers' values, and the hacker way of living.
I actually put one of these on my site back when I was 16 and thought it was cool. Apparently someone else didn't think I was 'hacker enough.' It was the only time I ever had my site defaced :/
Some American politicians have a habit of wearing a small pin in the shape of an American flag on their lapel. It is an on-again, off-again fashion which became seriously on-again after September 11th. The presence/absence of a flag pin, and stated reasons for the presence/absence, was a political issue in Obama's presidential campaign, among others.
