i hate the term "hacker"... when someone says "hey that guy's a
hacker"... i'm thinking "wooooooooo... a hacker..."  ... why dont they
just call hackers/crackers criminals... and hackers(the good kind)
software engineers.. or programmers.. or software experts.. gurus.... 
the term hacker is so 1990's.

carlos

p.s.  thanks for the invite orly :-D

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:23:15 -0500, Michael Chaney
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> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:55:00AM -0700, bryan wrote:
> > Then perhaps it's about time that it changed...
> >
> > It really is not right to generalize all hackers as
> > such...
> 
> Geesh, why do we go through this again and again?
> 
> Nobody- NOBODY- is generalizing "all hackers".  Nobody.  The rest of the
> world uses the word "hacker" to mean "someone who breaks into computer
> systems".  They're not confusing open source programmers with hackers.
> They're simply using the word "hacker" in a way that you don't like.
> 
> I still call myself a hacker in computing circles, but outside of
> computing circles I understand that the word means something else.
> 
> It's not going to change.  Ever.  Get over it.
> 
> Michael
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