Xref: utzoo alt.security:1335 alt.folklore.computers:4646 comp.society.futures:1966 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.folklore.computers,comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 20:54:34 GMT References: <26581@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <14443@wpi.wpi.edu> <14467@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <14467@wpi.wpi.edu> dmorin@wpi.wpi.edu (Duane D Morin) writes: > I fully support the people that do in fact encourage the hacker ethic. > I see one more letter with the word GNU in it Ill scream. What I would rather > here people talk about is what they think of the people who do NOT adhere to > such ethics, which is what I understood the original post to mean. The problem we're having here is that piracy is simply irrelevant to the hacker ethic. It's carried on by people in a whole other world than the hacker, by people who create nothing and soil their own bed by what they do. It's no wonder that people prefer not to talk about the petty criminals that the media calls "hackers". They're guilty of the ultimite crime: they are boring. There are undoubtedly many more pirates than freeware developers, just as there are more car thieves than automotive designers. Would you criticise an article in Car and Driver about the new Porsche on the grounds that it didn't give equal time to chop shops? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`