>Have you contributed to open source?
Yes I have. Fedora, Plasma, Notepad++ and Emacs.
>Why?
I want to make them work like I want.
>Have you emailed rms?
Yes I have. He replied.
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
Yes I have. They all reply.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
No.
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>Have you contributed to open source?
Yes, to Linux
>Why?
Because
>Have you emailed rms?
No
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
Yes, when I submitted the patch to Linux
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
No
>Have you contributed to open source?
Yes, but just a couple small ones.
>Why?
I like to help free (libre) projects.
>Have you emailed rms?
I wanted his opinion on a certain edge case on freedom. I got schooled.
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
No.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
No.
>Have you contributed to open source?
No
>Why?
Because I don't know how, I don't know what programming languages to learn or where to begin.
>Have you emailed RMS?
No, he's scary
>Have you emailed any other oss-hackers?
No, that's scary, too.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker
Noooooooo
>Have you contributed to open source?
Yes. php, php-gtk, beaver, retroarch and some emulators
>Why?
I was bored.
>Have you emailed rms?
No.
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
Yes I have. They all reply.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
No.
>Have you contributed to open source?
No.
>Why?
Not my project, not my problem.
>Have you emailed rms?
No.
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
No.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
No.
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If you have constributed on a project in order to make work as you want then you're a hacker. Hacker isn't cracker and doesn't mean a security expert either.
Patches to various projects.
Because they made some problems for me.
No.
No. Any message I have sent is on public groups or mail lists.
No.
No
I'm not confident enough in my skills to.
No
No
Yes, but the word hacker sounds stupid to me now cause normies and gaymers ruined it.
>Have you contributed to open source?
Only documentation and simple functionality extension scripts. No formal work or commits
>Why?
By documenting what I do I learn better all while potentially helping others. My functionality extensions and scripts help me do my job. By publishing them not only can I help others but others can also improve upon my work. I get a better tool without wasting more time on it myself.
>Have you emailed rms?
No but I have spoken to him
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
No. I feel as if I would waste their time if the subject is not related directly to their work
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
Yes by the classic definition of the word.
The etymology of the word is worth looking at.
catb.org
>Have you contributed to open source?
No
>Why?
I just d/l scripts
>Have you emailed rms?
Who
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
Literally whom
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
Yes
hi poodlecorp
disregarding pretentious threads? For the better.
>Have you contributed to open source?
No.
>Why?
No.
>Have you emailed rms?
No.
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
No.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
Yes.
I mine ethereum.
Does that count?
>Have you contributed to open source?
Do translations count?
>Why?
Because no one bothers translating shit to my language
>Have you emailed rms?
Nope.
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
Nope.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
And nope.
>Have you contributed to open source?
Yes, to some reverse engineering related projects
>Why?
They were broken or worked in a way that triggered me.
>Have you emailed rms?
No
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
No.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
Yes.
Which language?
Gud 1 :^)
Russian. I did one complete translation, a couple of translation fixes and one translation for a non-opensource site.
>>Have you contributed to open source?
No
>>Why?
Lack of confidence, would rather not fuck with other people's stuff, don't know where to start
>>Have you emailed rms?
lol
>>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
lol
>>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
I sometimes use bitwise operations, so maybe?
>Have you contributed to open source?
Translations in Bulgarian and Russian; I can't program for shit but I still want to contribute in some way. This is my way. From tiny XDA apps (completely translated by myself) to larger projects (where the work is done in a team), I've helped with the translation.
>Why?
Why not? Translating software into multiple languages helps a fuckton for its' adoptability.
Also, the absurdly incorrect machine translation I've seen over the years pissed me off. One day I just realized I could help with that since a lot of the projects were open source.
>Have you emailed rms?
Yup. He even corrected some misconceptions I had, he's a great teacher.
>Have you emailed any other oss-hacker?
No.
>Do you consider yourself a hacker?
No.