thanks James & Jon for your help. Here's a bit more about what was in the article that I'm trying to find...
It commenced with defining the marked differences with the way we, as Linux users, use the terms hacker & cracker. And it then discussed how these terms have been confused and misused in the mainstream media and went on to say that the majority of Linux users are law abiding citizens whose main interest is in using non-proprietary software. The article wasn't from a uni journal, it was just a web page on a Linux advocate's website. The main crux of the article's intent was to clear the air over what the average Linux user's character is; how they care about promoting software freedoms, sharing knowledge, how the majority of Linux users do not fit the profile of a cracker. My main reason for trying to find the article is to argue against (what I see as) the totally unfounded crap in this piece of 'scholarly' work: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2417/2240 Personally I don't think that is an accurate assessment of today's Linux user and it certainly does not reflect kindly on the character of the Linux users that I know. cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
