A few days ago FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia sent an open letter concerning the misuse of the term "hacker". There is an English translation (with the Slovenian original) available on my page as well.
Today I am happy to report that this action had a bigger impact that we hoped for!
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Delo – probably the most serious Slovenian daily newspaper was very keen on publishing our open letter in the readers' letters section in the printed edition.
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Dnevnik – the other major daily newspaper has also published the open letter under readers' letters in both the printed form and online.
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Večer – another rather popular Slovenian newspaper
seems like it will publish it tomorrow (according to its archive)has published it in its readers' letters section. -
Moj Mikro – one of the most prominent computer magazines in Slovenia, has published the open letter under news (although without mentioning any authorship or signatures).
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RTV Slovenia – from the national broadcast the lector wrote back to thank for the "extraordinarily well written and useful explanation" and stated she will try to follow it as much as possible.
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the aforementioned translation on my blog got already 2500+ hits until today.
I know we haven't changed the world with this action …but maybe we just made it a tiny bit better nontheless and perhaps even inspired others around the world to try the same ;)
hook out → rainy day, home improvement to help with and hopefully soon time to study :P