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| author | P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net> | 2011-11-14 17:35:46 (EST) |
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| committer | P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net> | 2011-11-14 17:35:46 (EST) |
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Add introduction to hacker subculture.
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diff --git a/researched-outline.txt b/researched-outline.txt index eaba653..5a33783 100644 --- a/researched-outline.txt +++ b/researched-outline.txt @@ -1,18 +1,24 @@ working title: History of Software Freedom: Free Software and Open Source -hackers - will explain first - hacker values permeate and give context to the history of software freedom - definitions: - RFC 1392 +hacker subculture + will discuss first, since: + hacker values permeate and give context to the history of sw freedom + few, if any, in the audience know what a hacker is + Phil Agre, an MIT hacker, on the definition: + The word hack doesn't really have 69 different meanings. In fact, hack + has only one meaning, an extremely subtle and profound one which defies + articulation. + [Jargon-meaning] + nonetheless, many have attempted to define hacking: + RFC 1392: hacker A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context, where "cracker" would be the correct term. See also: cracker. [RFC1392, 21] - RMS + RMS, a renowned hacker I'll be discussing in detail shortly: It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means @@ -20,7 +26,7 @@ hackers cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value". [RMS-hacking] - Jargon file + Jargon file offers a good detailed explanation: 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. RFC1392, the Internet @@ -134,6 +140,8 @@ proprietarization GNU +Jargon-meaning + http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html RFC1392 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1392.txt RMS-hacking @@ -142,8 +150,6 @@ Jargon-hacker http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html RFC1149 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 -Jargon-meaning - http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html IHTFP-CP-Car http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1994/cp_car/ IHTFP-No-Tresspassing |