From: pdudey@willamette.edu (The Lisp SubGuru)
Subject: Re: Where did the hacker ethic go?
Article-I.D.: willamet.C6D4BJ.Du
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
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In article <1993May1.092058.1@aurora.alaska.edu> pstlb@aurora.alaska.edu writes:
>
>  I put it to you thus:  Where HAS the hacker ethic gone?  If it still exists,
>where?  And, if it DOES exist, why are those who call themselves "hackers"
>allowing this to perpetuate itself?  Why are they not creating new, innovative,
>interesting ideas to stop the SOS from maintaining its choke hold on the
>computer industry?

How about the GNU people, handing out very good, free software?  I've also
distributed two decent-sized programs myself, the Go player Fumiko (at
ftp.u.washington.edu) and the Genetic Neural Network Programmer CEREBRUM
(somewhere out there).

I've only had time to write these programs because of scholarships and
grants.  The intended benefit to society, or a loophole in the system? 

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