Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:52:03 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal to change name of this list to a less embarrassing one Message-ID: <199507060852.KAA02604@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 1995 11:59:54 %2B0200." <199507050959.FAA09424@hda.com>
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> From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> > Has this proven to be a problem for anyone, Hacker is not a good word in Germany: - I have talked to numerous technical & managerial people in Germany, (in offices & more numerously at conferences etc) about the benefits of FreeBSD, their reaction swings negative whenever the opposition overhear me, butt in, & say "it's done by a load of hackers, what do you expect for free !" Then I have to waste time explaining ..again.. - there's a Hackers Handbook, - we have a Chaos Club up north `full of hackers' (to quote common perception), - eg NC (Networks & Comms) magazine 6/95 P22 Col 2 Para 2 (my translation from German follows): "Many security experts hold that Satan is virtually an invitation for the international hackers scene to check out the weak points of the Internet" `Hacker' is an un-necessary liability to our fine Op System. I guess people in the business of providing Unix like OSs to students & motivated individuals don't encounter much resistance, but I'm trying to venture into new markets, where the people are less `op. system literate'; here the word `Hacker' is a superfluous danger signal. Julian S Munich, Germany
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