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[Peter D. Junger]

"Alan Smithee" writes:

: Wade,
: 
: This is a most excellent idea and I look forward to participating.
: 
: Might I respectfully suggest, however, that you re-consider your choice of 
: the word 'Hacker.'
: 
: It is a buzz word that connotes illegality and crime, and to many, 
: incorrectly frames the debate.
: 
: 'Coder' would be far more neutral and better define the balance of rights at 
: stake.
 
A ``Coder'' traditionally was someone who took the program that was written
by a programmer in a higher level language and converted it to lower level
languages or machine code, mechanical functions that are now performed by
a computer program.  Coders had higher status than key-punch operators, but
the word you are looking far is ``Programmmer.''

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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