Chris jefferson wrote:
>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..
Sandy Harris wrote:
>http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Appendix-C.html
Ah, the ever-shifting nomenclatural sands of net culture. You know,
there are any number of more accurate (but probably seen as old-
fogeyish) terms for the type of person you call a 'hacker.' Here are
a few:
programmer (you know, like don knuth, another old fogey)
programming enthusiast
distributed computing aficionado
open source software proponent
George Woltman himself (admittedly, he's probably-gasp-in his 40s)
once deleted a link to a distributed crypto-cracking site because
(in his own words) "it smells of hackerism." Just because Eric
Raymond (much as i admire the man) defines it a certain way and
Hollywood made a (really stupid) film by the same name, doesn't
mean everyone has adopted it. Sure, it sounds cooler than boring
ol' 'computer geek,' but I'm afraid we shall have to agree to
(respectfully) disagree on this one.
Now back to the plain old programming (at least for me),
-Ernst
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