Re: Hackers (Score 1)

The book is very good at telling one part of the history of computers. You'll need to keep in mind that Stephen Levy was (is?) an employee of BBN as well as Apple, and he uses that perspective. I don't think it's wrong -- I can read the book over and over without getting tired of reading it -- but I think readers should be aware that much more than this happened -- and there are many other opinions -- than those that Levy writes about. I think the choice of the term "hacker" is unfortunate, because wrt/writing or journalism, the word "hack" has a completely negative meaning, to me at least, it means an incompetent writer who steals competent authors' stuff. has completely negati