[olug] First time I ever liked a hacker

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<quote who="Jeff Hinrichs">
> I agree with your sentiments about hacking, however, I wouldn't refer to
> it as a news site.
>
> -jeff
>
> Nick Walter said:
>> I think that any act of website hacking is rather childish.  It really
>> reinforces the American ideal of free speech to see American patriots
>> taking out a news web site.
>>
>> I can certainly sympathize with the message the hackers were trying to
>> send, but I think there were more appropriate ways of doing it.
>>
>> Nick Walter
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:55, drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com wrote:
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/27/sprj.irq.aljazeera.hacked.ap/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Former Marine
>>> Daryl Rose

At RC5 [http://www.rubi-con.org/] last weekend, a reoccurring statement
from many of the presenters & old timers was that defacing sites is
childish and overplayed.

Let me remind you that free speech & the first amendment includes what you
may disagree with. Free beer and open source software is a totally
different issue; but both are tied together. With DRM heading at us, many
in the open source world are deeply concerned – and you should be as well.

I will close with a question: are any of the supposed 'news' sources
non-biased, reporting what really is happening in our world today?

For the sake of us all, be a smart consumer and gather all the information
you can; them make your own decision. Do not be the typical sheeple and
blindly accept what is being forced fed to you.

Is that not a reason why we/you are so attracted to open source?

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