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From: trb@masscomp.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
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Subject: Re: "Hack" is a sacred word?
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Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 11:37:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  1 11:37:13 1983
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[Once again, trb enters red-faced and screaming into the fray...]

Software Artist?  Computist?  Guru?  Wizard?
Lord High Executioner?  Hackro-American?

Foo!

I'm not going to forsake the good name of hacker just because some
ignorant losers in the mass media abuse it.  

The people who are suggesting that we change our chosen title
obviously don't have pride in it.  Where I come from, hackers were
respected.  Young people aspired to be hackers.  They respected
hackers.  You didn't call yourself a hacker, you were called a
hacker.  How dare you belittle the title.

If you don't want to be called a hacker, that's perfectly fine with
me.  Just don't go defaming hackers with your inconsideration.

I hack and I'm proud.  Hack is beautiful.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Masscomp Inc  Littleton MA   (617) 486-9581