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Hackers Hall of Fame
An anonymous reader writes "tlc.discovery.com has a nice feature called Hackers Hall of Fame. They have included 15 bios of modern and not so modern hackers and crackers. " Definitely a few names that probably don't deserve to be on the list, but for the most part this is a good list.
Cap'n Crunch provided just as valuable a public service as RMS: showing the falicy of the "exchange value" concept. No one is hurt by making free phone calls with the bluebox just as nobody is hurt by using GNU instead of SUN. software has a use value but should not have an exchange value, meaning it ought to be free, and i do mean also free of charge. I don't like to pay for things. That said, I am using MacOS X 10.3 on an iBook G4 I got at the end of October. But I didn't buy any other software for it. I got free or pirated stuff to fill out what didn't come with this thing.
Phone calls also should be free. ther is no reason why they should be paid for. The government should make people do the maintanance on the lines and money should be eliminated.
I am not sure if I am the only one, but the last time I tried to boot into gcc and the gcc utilities on my x86 processor, nothing happened. It wouldn't even boot. Weird... Said something about "no kernel found."
The neat thing is that I wrote a small C program the other day that organizes my contacts, it did the same thing when I tried to boot into it. I must have written an operating system, too!
Seriously, RMS has TLC drinking the koolaid, too...