Could that be because you exclude Windows hackers from your definition of "hacker"? No, it couldn't. The person out of the group of people that I know personal

Could that be because you exclude Windows hackers from your definition of "hacker"? No, it couldn't. The person out of the group of people that I know personally that I consider "hackers" uses Windows primarily, and knows a bunch of crazy APIs inside and out. He does whip out VS for some stuff, but the vast majority of his code is written in emacs. I'm not saying the article is right all the time, but I think it's a pretty good rule-of-thumb. My experience coinciding with the article is more of a function of "I really don't know very many people" than "I don't think there can be such a thing as a hacker that uses windows, or microsoft tools".