What is Hacking?

Hacking means the same thing everywhere. Largely it means customization of a work that someone else has done to suit your requirements. Being a hacker in the open source community is a good thing. But most people don’t know about open source, and therefore, everyone thinks that hacking is bad. Well, it is not always bad. Open source software are there for customization, and customizing it to suit your needs and distributing it again so that others can use it with the improvements is what is called as Hacking in Open Source. In various Open Source community meets, there will be a good number of sessions that deal with open source hacking. But hacking is a good thing in Open Souce only because open source is open source, and that anyone can do what ever they want, and that no one is responsible if something goes wrong, and people use the software at their own risk. Open source hacking only means modifications of the open codes that are meant for modification, and this is no big deal compared to the hacking done by the bad guys on websites and other software.

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