In this environment, a world apart from the early frontier days of the Internet, hackers today universally exhibit acertain mercenary sensibility, cannily juggling multiple offers, playing judge in hustler beauty contests at hackathons, planning acqui-hire trajectories, and in general maximizing their value as the stewards of the new body of technical knowledge.
Because Ted understood that Bobby's legacy wasn't a devotion to one particular cause, or a faith in acertain ideology -- but rather, it was asensibility.