26 May
2004
26 May
'04
11:24 a.m.
On Wed, 26 May 2004, der Mouse wrote:
The best analogy I have found so far for getting
across the hacker
attitude towards the journalistic mislabeling is to suggest imagining
what would happen if an organized-crime boss who insists on calling
himself a "businessman" resulted in the media everywhere starting to
use the term "businessman" to mean an organized-crime type.
Businessmen everywhere of the non-criminal sort would resent it, and
rightly so.
That was the analogy that the late Bob Bickford used 20 years ago.