<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Mark Janssen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dreamingforward@gmail.com" target="_blank">dreamingforward@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Sean Bonner <<a href="mailto:sean@seanbonner.com">sean@seanbonner.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> The other major point in using the word "hacker" is that it has major<br>
>> negative connotations when seeking funding form the commercial sector.<br>
>> It could be argued that we (sf_x) probably lost our space because of<br>
>> the confusion surrounding that word.<br>
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> I would just like to say fuck that.<br>
><br>
> We are hackers, it's not our fault or problem that some people are stupid<br>
> and like to wring their hands about hollywood misinterpretations of the word<br>
> - if anything that should make our resolve that much stronger to show what<br>
> hackers really are.<br>
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</div>Haha, I agree, but then your getting into the #Occupy space and out of<br>
the hackerspaces, because the hackerspaces don't have an economic<br>
model at the moment. Now if you want to talk about activism then I<br>
can talk that too and been in jail for it.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style>Sorry, I joined several hacekerspaces and opened a hackerspace of my own long before #occupy ever existed, calling it a hackerspace has nothing to do with activism or #occupy. It's accurate labeling.</div>
<div style><br></div></div><div style>-s</div>
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