[net.nlang] Changing Meaning of "Hacker"

davidst@teklabs.UUCP (09/16/83)

	September 12, 1983, Vol. XVII, No. 37, Page 1

	HACKING: MARK OF GENIUS OR PLAIN THEFT?
	By Jeffry Beeler
	ComputerWorld West Coast Bureau

	"... They call themselves `hackers.'"


Thus ComputerWorld, alledged "newsweekly for the computer community"
joined the media word-stomp. A mark of stupidity or just plain ignorance?

<flame on>
Jeffry must be one of those folks who studied journalism in school instead
of studying the subject about which he intended to report. With this kind
of help, hackers-of-the-first-kind better find themselves a new monicker.
<flame off>

If you'd like to vent a little spleen on this guy, his bureau chief, and
perhaps the home office:

	CW West Coast Bureau
	257 Lytton Avenue
	Palo Alto, California, 94301
	415-328-8064

	John C. Whitmarsh, Editor
	ComputerWorld
	Box 880, 375 Cochituate Road
	Framingham, Massachusetts, 01701
	617-879-0770
	telex: 95-1153

Regards!

David Stubbs

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