Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site teklabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekchips!teklabs!davidst From: davidst@teklabs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang Subject: Changing Meaning of "Hacker" Message-ID: <2452@teklabs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Sep-83 13:24:48 EDT Article-I.D.: teklabs.2452 Posted: Fri Sep 16 13:24:48 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Sep-83 09:25:05 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 49 September 12, 1983, Vol. XVII, No. 37, Page 1 HACKING: MARK OF GENIUS OR PLAIN THEFT? By Jeffry Beeler ComputerWorld West Coast Bureau "... They call themselves `hackers.'" Thus ComputerWorld, alledged "newsweekly for the computer community" joined the media word-stomp. A mark of stupidity or just plain ignorance? Jeffry must be one of those folks who studied journalism in school instead of studying the subject about which he intended to report. With this kind of help, hackers-of-the-first-kind better find themselves a new monicker. If you'd like to vent a little spleen on this guy, his bureau chief, and perhaps the home office: CW West Coast Bureau 257 Lytton Avenue Palo Alto, California, 94301 415-328-8064 John C. Whitmarsh, Editor ComputerWorld Box 880, 375 Cochituate Road Framingham, Massachusetts, 01701 617-879-0770 telex: 95-1153 Regards! David Stubbs uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,pur-ee,ihnss,chico}!teklabs!davidst CSnet: teklabs!davidst@tek ARPAnet: teklabs!davidst.tek@rand-relay USPS: David Stubbs Electronic Systems Laboratory, MS 50-383 Tektronix, Inc. PO Box 500 Beaverton OR 97077 Phone: 503-627-2627 -- David D. Stubbs