There area a number of schools of thought on that :) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html http://www.gnu.org/

There area a number of schools of thought on that :) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-hack.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-hack.html http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html ( I like the first one.)