I know RMS and ESR write this kind of stuff about words and true meaning all the time, but I don't get it really.
* For my friends, I am a hacker because I can fix their computer and I can easily edit a word document using keyboard shortcuts. They don't know or care about anything else.
* For others (the mass media), Max Vision is a hacker because he broke into computers.
* For RMS Linus Torvalds is a hacker because he wrote a kernel for GNU and made it Open Source.
I don't see why I need to lecture the first two groups about a word which clearly states the meaning they have in mind and by that I mean: When they use it, I totally understand what they are trying to say.
Please don't use RMS and ESR in the same sentence. That's as bad as using Free Software and Open Source in the same sentence. ESR coined to term Open Source to attack RMS's definition of Free Software, and they are mortal enemies.
Insofar as RMS considers Linus Torvalds a hacker or thinks anything positive about him, that would be because he made the Linux kernel GPL, not Open Source. RMS says of Torvalds: "Well, you can see that he is a person who doesn’t believe in freedom."
* For my friends, I am a hacker because I can fix their computer and I can easily edit a word document using keyboard shortcuts. They don't know or care about anything else.
* For others (the mass media), Max Vision is a hacker because he broke into computers.
* For RMS Linus Torvalds is a hacker because he wrote a kernel for GNU and made it Open Source.
I don't see why I need to lecture the first two groups about a word which clearly states the meaning they have in mind and by that I mean: When they use it, I totally understand what they are trying to say.