On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, aaaaarrrgghhh wrote: > Much as I agree with you, I've been observing with increasing despair, > the acceptance by the technical community of the perception that > hacker=baddie... this is amply evident in the technical > literature..even security experts use the term loosely... if security
It is up to us to change every instance of such. Whenever you come across someone's website that mentions hacker in the derogative sense, ask them to correct it. It doesn't matter if it is a company website or a personal website. Whenever you see newspaper articles mentioning hacker in the derogatory sense, write a letter to the editor asking them to change it. The jargon file (Appendix C) has a letter written by RMS to the New York Times regarding this matter. RMS has allowed the use of this letter by anyone for similar purposes. -- A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected. Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328 _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
