[H-GEN] I was sittin' and wondering'

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Mon Nov 4 15:10:24 EST 2002


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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

| Andrew M <amca1975 at yahoo.com.au> writes:
| 
| >         Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or
| >         under MacOS is like trying to learn to dance while
| >         wearing a body cast.
| > 
| >          -- Eric Steven Raymond
| 
| I dunno what ESR is smoking these days but that's just wrong.  What
| about all the clever hacks people came up with to write demos, games,
| game cheats, jokes, viruses, and yes, software protection cracks on
| the MS-DOS platform?

Actually, I think it must have been ESR's mother that smoked the
really bad crack -- he's been out of control for years.

Greg

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