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From: de5@STC06.CTD.ORNL.GOV (SILL D E)
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Subject: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime
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Date: 8 Aug 90 14:52:30 GMT
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In article <14443@wpi.wpi.edu> dmorin@wpi.wpi.edu writes:
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>As Levy says, the hackers of yesteryear simply don't exist today.  

What about the last of the hackers, Richard Stallman?  Did you read
the chapter about him in _Hackers_?

>If you wrote a good program, you gave it to everyone because you were proud of
>it, and if someone took your code and changed it so that it was better well,
>then, good for them.  You were proud for them as well.  But today people don't
>circulate software for the good of al concerned, they do it for personal gain.

Stallman, and *many* GNU supporters would beg to differ.

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