On Sep 28, 2013 12:12 PM, "Marius Kruger" <<a href="mailto:amanic@gmail.com">amanic@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On 28 September 2013 11:40, Jan Greeff <<a href="mailto:jan@verslank.net">jan@verslank.net</a>> wrote: >> >> Great Wesley, thanks. But why the "Happy hacking" greeting at the end? In my limited perception, hacking is a very negative connotation. > > > When freesoftware/gnu people in general talk about hacking it has nothing to do with the illegal operations most people think about when they hear that word. > > -- > A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.” > > Please don't spread this mistake. People who break security are “crackers.” > > <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker</a> > > -- > ✝ Marius > > -- Thanks for that info Marius I have read about the "cracker label" once long ago, but most of this is fresh info to store for future use :-D