[41382] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Economist on Netscape "hackers"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark)
Fri Oct 13 04:35:50 1995
From: Mark <mark@lochard.com.au>
To: raph@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Raph Levien)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 18:05:16 +1000 (E )
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510130458.VAA16480@kiwi.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Raph Levien" at Oct 12, 95 09:58:58 pm
I was going to ignore this, but I feel verbose today..
>I write the letter to the editor, or does someone else want to? One
>thing I'll need is a brief outline of Damien Doligez's acheivements to
>support the idea that characterizing him as a "hacker" is not quite
>right.
Hacker good. Cracker bad. Media distort hacker to bad. Media hype merchants.
Media bad. Bad ol' Media. Degauss. Reformat.
>Raph (who's wondering if there's something inherent in the media
>process that keeps them from getting their stories straight)
Reporters. Editors. Owners.
Cheers,
Mark
mark@locahrd.com.au
The above opinions are rumoured to be mine.
