Why C ‘hackers’? Why not just regular C users?

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Was thinking of putting “UNIX Hackers” but I thought that might have been too obscure. Referencing people like Linus Torvalds’, Theo de Raadt’s, and cat-v’s opinions on C++.

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To my knowledge, it’s a name that came out of the free software / GNU movement. So, “hackers” as in clever problem solvers, not those that break into insecure systems.

Which should be known as a “cracker”, but yeah mainstream media fucked the word “hacker” to mean something it doesn’t.

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