Sorry, anthonyC. You may compare “Hacker Ethic” and “Hacker” in Wikipedia. If you dig the history of the latter, you will find my attempt to fix it, the response, including a peculiar “Wikipedia’s policies cannot be changed” response by the reverter - which made me quite disheartened with Wikipedia. I know it’s just somebody’s opinion, but it felt like a very sad thing, if any WP policy ever is writ in stone.
See also Jargon File “hacker” entry. And, of minor import maybe, see http://atxinventor.com/2012/03/hacker-or-cracker.html
During the summer I volunteered with a kid’s robotics camp. I wanted to tell them about our Hackerspace here. So I asked if they knew what a “hacker” is. Yes! Yes! “a hacker is someone who gets into your email”. Sad. Most of us do understand the difference, why it matters to use the right one especially in publication, and I hope you will support that too
