I’m continuing to read “Opensource: Technology and Policy” and have been surprised at the repeated references to the term “hacker”.
Noteably the term has not been used to portray a negative activity or undertone but as a more generalised descriptor of someone who is passionate about coding. And it’s struck me as interesting how narrowed the meaning of the term has become over time.
As Wikipedia’s article on the subject shows (“Hacker (computing)“), in reality the connotations of the term “hacker” are far more broad and subject to disagreement:
“The terms hacker …