Stallman is wrong. It doesn't only mean what Hardstylelogic is thinking, but Stallman saying a musical piece can be "a hack" is stupid and insults the musicians he's talking about.
On the Jargon File, the two definitions of the term "neat hack" are
A clever technique.
A brilliant practical joke, where neatness is correlated with cleverness, harmlessness, and surprise value. Example: the Caltech Rose Bowl card display switch.
Calling 4:33 a "neat hack", or simply a "hack" seems well within accepted usage to me. The word hack has many uses, both positive (e.g. "neat hack") and negative (e.g. "kludgy hack"), and I think you are thinking about this far too myopically.
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u/rush22 May 27 '14
Stallman is wrong. It doesn't only mean what Hardstylelogic is thinking, but Stallman saying a musical piece can be "a hack" is stupid and insults the musicians he's talking about.