Krishnakant wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 15:08 +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > >> >> Just because others' commit suicide, it doesn't mean we should too. >> Yes, the media and few others have been misusing the term. >> >> > Exactly my Point. > That's why I gave an example of a woman going sati after her husband's > death. It was practiced very extensively and not following it was > considered to be a sin as bad as hacking. > > But some people felt that it was wrong although practiced extensively. > My views on this are given in my earlier mail.
> So it is the same case with hacking. It is considered to be a sin to be > a hacker. But that's not true. Infact it was never considered to be a > bad thing untill the big giants and their dear media made it appear to > be a sinful thing. > Hacking as breaking into other's systems was bad and is still bad. According to your observation above, what may have changed is the use of a word that defined a good act to now define a bad act. Maybe a new word can be coined to define the good act and clear the matter once and for all, to everyone's satisfaction. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
