On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:10 PM, draicone@gmail.com <draicone@gmail.com> wrote:
Quoting from http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/uncorkers: I understand the organizer intends well, but this seems totally against the spirit of Software Freedom Day. Were we to start hijacking home pages to the SFD site, we also run the risk of it being DNS blocked (by ISPs, AV/AS companies or any other party). Any plan like this could be a PR nightmare for SFD, and I'm sure we don't want to be labelled as hackers in the common definition of the term.
I agree that SFD should be labeled as "hackers". Mainstream media and advertising uses the term "hacker" to describe a person engaged in criminal behavior. As such, the vast majority of the public have no conception of an "ethical hacker"; its just an oxymoron to most. Please consider another tactic for promoting FOSS, keeping in mind one goal is to appeal to the general public.