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[Bart Silverstrim]

Rapael Morcha wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:09:44PM -0700, Scott (angrykeyboarder)
> wrote:
>> Rapael Morcha spake thusly:
> ....................
>>> TBH, every user has different degree of requirements. If you are
>>> a home user, you'd obviously would want Linux software to be
>>> bug-free and free/libre _with_ source code and have GPL-like
>>> license so that if you can hack the guts of the source, you could
>>> do so with full freedom.
>> Since when does a user also have to be a hacker?
> 
> Seems like you didn't look up the definition of a hacker. A quick
> refresh at [1]. And if you care :), hacking term itself started out
> in the '70s-'80s from -users-. It didn't exist before that period to
> mean [1]. Scott, a user need not be a hacker but hacking is
> inevitable in Linux. While it is true that the eventual goal of
> Gnu/Linux as I see is to be simple and easy to use, there are many
> instances I have found where hacking shell scripts, modifying kernel
> parameters and configuration files to be simply inevitable.

So if you classify users as hackers, what do you classify people who 
just want to write an email, web browse, and do...well,...what Joe 
Average does when he gets home?  A support issue?