"hackers"

[Richard Vickery]

To the point made immediately previous to my last comment: no one is
forcing you to participate in this thread; if you don't like it, you are
absolutely free - and I encourage you - to ignore it. Then you won't be
bothered by it.

Oh, and by the way, it is relevant to a discussion - of open-source
programming, which is what we are doing.


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Richard Vickery <
richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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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