On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jukka Santala wrote:
>
> >First of all, I take offence at the use of the term "hacker" here.
> >I would have thought most people following this list are knowledgeable
> >enough to make the distinction - what GIMPS for example does is hacking
>
> Thanks for clearing me up on that - I was under the (apparently misguided)
> impression that GIMPS was about recreational mathematics. My sincerest
> apologies. I shall begin to recode all my software, er, I mean to say,
> warez, immediately.
>
> -Ernst
And this is the reason why 'hackers' get such bad press. hackers are not
interested in "warez", "crackz" , or anything similar. The people who
wrote Linux were hackers, as were the people who originally wrote DOS (big
bill never was. =\ )
We are hackers here, we are trying to combine together to power of many
computers to see what happens and what interesting results we might
create..
Chris
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