On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
>> ?Well
specifically, people like us, who actually know how
>> computers work.
> We do not control the industry, nor the lexicography of it.
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
? ?Really? ?Then who does? ?We ALL shape this
industry. ?We're not
just passengers here.
Do you really think that we can successfully correct the meaning of
"hackers"?
There are a few too many passengers who ought to be cargo or jettisoned,
steering things.
Good point. The same thing happened with the original subject of this
topic, "video game", which has gone on to become a much wider pop
culture influenced term from it's original technical descriptive.