Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution chronicles the rise and fall of the true hacker. Gripping and colorful, Levy steps inside the mind of these midnight prodigies and unsung geniuses.
Four hundred pages tell the tale of three distinct generations of hackers, from the sleepless disciples of the late fifties and early sixties to the software stars of the personal computer mania of 1982-1983.
Hundreds of personal interviews and direct quotes truly define these obsessed disciples and their integral role in modern history. Truly this is an epochal work.
Exceptionally well-written, well-researched and inspiring, this work is an absolute must-read. One can only hope that the dream of the Hacker Ethic will not remain within the pages of Steven Levy's masterpiece, but be spread throughout the computing community.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steve Levy, is a book for everyone.
Please help to improve GNOME by submitting bug reports via bugs.gnome.org.
Don't complain about work that other people do, if you don't want to do what it takes to make GNOME work better.
You seem to think version numbering is the Truth, and that 1.0 versions always are BugFree(tm).
People who complain about good moral
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Before people criticise RMS/FSF, and their moral, and how these people license *their* hard work, those people should first go and write free program sources, before they complain about how RMS/FSF license their programs.
Developers who use the GPL for their source code have decided that nobody should use *their work* in any non-free programs.
MALDA: Care to elaborate what problems the GPL has?
Please give counter-examples of "lies" and "false facts" given to the press by Miguel de Icaza.
I fail to see a single reason for why Miguel would lie.
He's a Free Software Foundation volunteer working on GNOME. Besides, he holds a system administrator job at UNAM in Mexico.
So before you claim that someone in our community has lied to the press, please check out what he or they would actually gain from it, before you post as Anonymous Coward.
In this case, Miguel would not gain anything, since he's not receiving money from either of the distribution companies, AFAIK.
The photo of Miguel that ABCnews used, was shot by Hans Schou ( chlor@inet.uni2.dk), allthough they have just annotated it "www.gphoto.org" in the article.
gPhoto does not yet support video conferencing streams over networks, allthough it has a live camera plugin. You might want to check out the project pages at www.gphoto.org and help write a driver for your 3COM (?) camera.
I am asking computer manufacturers for donations of machines and money. I'm asking individuals for donations of programs and work.
(...)
If I get donations of money, I may be able to hire a few people full or part time. The salary won't be high by programmers' standards, but I'm looking for people for whom building community spirit is as important as making money. I view this as a way of enabling dedicated people to devote their full energies to working on GNU by sparing them the need to make a living in another way.
At RedHat Software, Inc. there are (according to my latest information from #gimp:) currently 6 people at the RedHat Advanced Developments Lab, 6 people working on the distribution, two on site kernels hackers, and 4 off site kernel hackers, who are paid full-time for free software developments.
People who receive a gratis CD with free software from a developer could send him the money saved, to encourage him to write more free software or manuals.
Most programmers and technical writers can contribute by writing software and documentation for GNU. That is the most direct way to contribute to the GNU Project. But if you can't or don't contribute in that way, please donate money to the FSF instead.
To donate to the FSF, simply mail a check to:
Free Software Foundation 59 Temple Place - Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111 USA
16 years of being bored, My window's open, Forget the door!
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Even if you don't find yourself sympatizing with the Free Software Foundation, please mention the GNU project, http://www.gnu.org/ when you talk about the whole system, not just the Linux kernel, http://www.kernel.org/.
Linus Torvalds licensed the Linux kernel under the GNU General Public License (GPL). http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl, and used free GNU tools, when he wrote it.
The C library (libc) is part of the GNU project.
Microsoft can't destroy our platform, because of the pragmatic idealistic development work, and the GPL license that is the essential effect and part of the GNU Project.
I value freedom, so I call the free system GNU/Linux, because it gives shared credit, to those whom credit is due.
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Check out gnoghurt from RHAD at http://www.labs.redhat.com/gnoghurt and Video4Linux.
Don't complain if you don't contribute.
Thanks.
Please reveal your identity, before you make statements like that.
Four hundred pages tell the tale of three distinct generations of hackers, from the sleepless disciples of the late fifties and early sixties to the software stars of the personal computer mania of 1982-1983.
Hundreds of personal interviews and direct quotes truly define these obsessed disciples and their integral role in modern history. Truly this is an epochal work.
Exceptionally well-written, well-researched and inspiring, this work is an absolute must-read. One can only hope that the dream of the Hacker Ethic will not remain within the pages of Steven Levy's masterpiece, but be spread throughout the computing community.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steve Levy, is a book for everyone.
Read this book.
The way to make music successful is through love of the music, the crowd, the scene and the culture. They don't respect listeners.
ESR has sold himself out by giving the interview, while he's being a member of the Linux.com board.
Don't complain about work that other people do, if you don't want to do what it takes to make GNOME work better.
You seem to think version numbering is the Truth, and that 1.0 versions always are BugFree(tm).
Developers who use the GPL for their source code have decided that nobody should use *their work* in any non-free programs.
MALDA: Care to elaborate what problems the GPL has?
I fail to see a single reason for why Miguel would lie.
He's a Free Software Foundation volunteer working on GNOME. Besides, he holds a system administrator job at UNAM in Mexico.
So before you claim that someone in our community has lied to the press, please check out what he or they would actually gain from it, before you post as Anonymous Coward.
In this case, Miguel would not gain anything, since he's not receiving money from either of the distribution companies, AFAIK.
So I think you owe Miguel an apology. His email address is miguel@NOSPAM.gnu.org.
They probably found it in this gallery that I posted at www.gphoto.org,
as an example gallery.
Mr. Schou used a Olympus Camedia C-1400L digital camera.
gPhoto does not yet support video conferencing streams over networks, allthough it has a live
camera plugin. You might want to check out the
project pages at www.gphoto.org
and help write a driver for your 3COM (?) camera.
Here's a section from the ''GNU Manifesto'' by Richard M. Stallman:
At RedHat Software, Inc. there are (according to my latest information from #gimp
People who receive a gratis CD with free software from a developer could send him the money saved, to encourage him to write more free software or manuals.
Most programmers and technical writers can contribute by writing software and documentation for GNU. That is the most direct way to contribute to the GNU Project. But if you can't or don't contribute in that way, please donate money to the FSF instead.
To donate to the FSF, simply mail a check to:
Free Software Foundation
59 Temple Place - Suite 330
Boston, MA 02111
USA
16 years of being bored,
My window's open,
Forget the door!
Even if you don't find yourself sympatizing with the Free Software Foundation, please mention the GNU project, http://www.gnu.org/ when you talk about the whole system, not just the Linux kernel, http://www.kernel.org/.
Linus Torvalds licensed the Linux kernel under the GNU General Public License (GPL). http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl, and used free GNU tools, when he wrote it.
The C library (libc) is part of the GNU project.
Microsoft can't destroy our platform, because of the pragmatic idealistic development work, and the GPL license that is the essential effect and part of the GNU Project.
I value freedom, so I call the free system GNU/Linux, because it gives shared credit, to those whom credit is due.