"hackers"

[Richard Vickery]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 10:18 -0700, les wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 15:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 10:12 -0700, Thomas Dineen wrote:
> > > >     I have a simple question: What the hell dose this rant have to do
> > > > with:
> > > > "Community Support For Fedora Users"??????????
> > >
> > > Nothing whatever. Not that that ever stopped anyone.
> > >
> > > [BTW, please don't top-post on this list]
> > >
> > > poc
> > >
> >
> > I think it does have a lot to do with Linux users and developers.  We
> > are often grouped with the "hackers" negatively, and we need to make
> > sure that people understand the difference.  Whether you agree or not,
> > is a personal feeling.  Perceptions matter, and hacking which is using
> > something in a way not necessarily intended by the original designer is
> > a good hack.  If someone is breaking into systems and doing harm, that
> > is cracking.
>
> By the same argument, we could also talk about a whole raft of issues to
> do with free software or free culture, but that's not the purpose of
> this list. The list is specifically for discussing Fedora. The whole
> "hacking" thread doesn't even mention Fedora, and would be more
> appropriate in any of the other lists, blogs, hashtags or whatever that
> focus on these issues.
>
> poc
>
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Er... Fedora isn't mentioned that much in what we do, much less the
discussions.
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