Krishnakant wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 17:31 +0530, Rony wrote: > >> Krishnakant wrote: >> >> >> Hacking as breaking into other's systems was bad and is still bad. >> > Breaking into others systems is always bad but it is not hacking but > "cracking". that is wy we all windows lovers will never buy a license > and use a "crack". I never herd of a software hack. > I read about serial numbers which are called cracks. > Don't put everyone in the same league. There are many Windows lovers who buy legal software. Till I started using Linux, I bought legal copies of Windows for my systems and used OpenOffice for Windows.
>> According to your observation above, what may have changed is the use of >> a word that defined a good act to now define a bad act. Maybe a new word >> can be coined to define the good act and clear the matter once and for >> all, to everyone's satisfaction. >> >> > The point here is that hacking was never bad and will be never bad. As > I said it is a matter of last few years that hacking was *given* a bad > name. Those who did it knew that hacking is a good thing and free > software community in particular respects its real meaning. So by > giving a wrong and dirty meaning to that term itself will make these > people look bad and unorganised. So who ever carries the tak is bad. > So why should we coin a new term for some thing which already exists. > Are you suggesting that we except some wrong propaganda just because it > is a popular misconception started by media and big businesses off late? > Free Software is called Open Source Software, FOSS, FLOSS, Libre software simply to remove any previous mis-understandings. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
