On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 08:57:37PM +0100, Keith Watson said:
The article is about Richard Stallman (pauses to genuflect), I looked it up. The Teenage Hackers book sounds interesting. Amazon has the publisher as Osborne and the author as Dan Verton, is that the one?
That's the book :)
As an old timer I get a bit peeved that the word hacker has come to mean i someone who deliberately breaks into computer systems, although I've always referred to it as computer hacking myself (well, I'm a human being so I don't have to be logical :o) ). I've always though of anyone who enjoys designing and writing software as a hobby rather than for profit as a hacker (which includes myself :o) ).
The hacker scene has changed dramatically. They are all script kiddies now.