- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:13:32 +0000
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: > There is a hint in the above [which I snipped : PT] that "hacking" > has negative connotations. In the open sources world, creating > variants is called "forking" and the ability to do so is considered > a desirable feature by people like the Free Software Foundation. OK, but I can't see the point you are making. Hacking /does/ have negative connotations (any newspaper headline that mentions a computer hacker is not being complimentary), whilst forking is (in many people's eyes) good. Surely you and Vladimir are as one here, are you not ? Philip TAYLOR
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