At 12.42 -0500 2000.06.16, Tushar Samant wrote:
>On 16 Jun 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:
>>There's nothing so-called about the hacker mentality. It exists. I live
>>it.
>
>Who is denying it? I am talking about a specific characterization of
>it, which includes things like "hackers read SF, frequently quoting
>out of it", "hackers like silly puns", etc. That sort of thing, as
>I said, hurts the hacker image quite a lot.
But isn't it true?
And how does it hurt?
>Have you seen it? I have.
Seen what, the image? All the time! Seen it cause any damage?
Other than in seeing hackers trying, with futility, to get dates, no,
I have not seen this image cause any damage to anyone.
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