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Subject: Re: Rastan GS
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Date: 8 Oct 90 00:26:10 GMT
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In article <9096@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>I do *NOT* equate "hacker" with "good programmer".

	Well then I presume you've not been in the computer hobbyist
"field" long enough.  Hacker has been used for a long time, and was 
originally a COMPLIMENT. Now it has unfortunately been degraded to mean 
someone who breaks into systems... At least that's the popular definition.
In mail and posting, I still often use the word hacker in its original
definition, and add something like ".... hacker (in its original definition,
not the current corrupted definition)."  Hell, we are trying to fight 
Apple's lack of support for the Apple II... Why can't I try to fight the
murder of a complimentary word?

>BTW, "cracking" a game is definitely illegal based on current copyright laws.
	If I buy a piece of software, I can do anything with it. Or a book,
or a record, anything... Books are software for the mind, and records are
software for a record player... heh... 

	If I buy something, I can mutilate and wreck it however I want, as
long as I don't pass it on and purport it as being mine.

	I'm not saying I believe in the last paragraph, I just mean that's
the law. As I've said many times in the past few weeks, I support piracy
as a form of TESTING OUT software. It is technically illegal, but people
get a good long amount of time to test out a program and see if they 
REALLY DO like the software. If they like it, they will buy it.. (as I've
also said, I have a big queue of programs to buy.. some by companies that
have gone out of business but I'm still going to find a copy and buy it
out of my own principles).

	If people don't like it, it doesn't get bought, the company
either gets out of the market (bad idea if it's the GS market but still) or
makes better products. Simple economics.
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