true, the way I see it, we need libre software, hardware, data but IMHO we also need lots of people from diverse backgrounds (professional, cultural, you name it) to share these ideas into the public sphere.
Vitalik is a businessmen, I do not see a hacker spirit inside him. I suppose this is some PR campaign promoting him as an intellectual, but usually this word means something more than running a successful business and writing a blog about technologies in cryptocurrencies.
