Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many first-generation hackers, having struggled with the red tape that surrounded million-dollar systems in the early days of computing, tended to view such things as copy-protection schemes, which make it difficult to steal programs, as barriers to the free flow of information. Other hackers, however, protested that anyone who spends thousands of hours writing a program deserves to earn royalties on it. Said Robert Woodhead, co-author of a best-selling game called Wizardry: "My soul is in my product...
...generation of computer fans. "It's one thing for a high school kid to show off how he can dial the phone for free," says Brian Harvey, an M.I.T. hacker turned high school teacher. "It's quite another for an adult to go around encouraging schoolkids to steal...
...Flynn's office for attempting to arrange a Boston appearance for the bishop on the same day he was scheduled to speak at Harvard. News Office stafler Marvin Hightower accused a Flynn aide of "deceiving" Tutu into believing Harvard had okayed a Fancuil Hall appearance and or trying to "steal the thunder" from the scheduled campus visit. Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation which had invited Tutu to Harvard, complained that it would "interfere" with the campus visit if Tutu spoke in Boston as well...
...Cambridge youths were seen attempting to steal a bicycle from in front of the Hasty Pudding Club last spring. Harvard students notified the Cambridge city police, who soon arrived and administered justice. The two youths, no older than the Harvard students, were thrown against a concrete wall, frisked, slapped around by the police, and thrown in the back of a police car. Bystanders thanked the police for their prompt response, the police thanked the bystanders for their vigilance, and the two criminals were whisked away. The Harvard students then returned to their party, secure in their property...
When Harvard students steal, things are different. Shari Rudavsky's article "From Roads to Roorhs" (11/21/84) reports "a new craze to break up the first semester freshman blues--stealing street signs." It is designed for "bored" freshman who find "Harvard isn't quite what it was cracked up to be." Signs are now "a symbol of status...you ain't cool unless you've got a sign," states one freshman. Another concedes. "It is stenling, so by definition I am a thief," but another concludes that "It's the thing to do." Rudavsky notes that freshman proctors seem "unconcerned...