Week 10: Hackers

This week's task is to describe an IT-project, which is done by people with “hacker's” mind-set. According to Steven Raymond hacker is someone, who has strong skills and knowledges in the field where he is dealing. As opposed to crackers, hackers build things, solve problems and believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. There are many free analogues to operation systems and programs with commerce purpose, that have been done by people with hacker's mind-set. One of the most significant for me is Linux. Linus Torvalds started to build this project by himself, to make a truly free Unix-like operation system. Nowadays Linux is a free open-source project and a lot of people working on it every day. It is used in many areas: on desktop computers, as a platform for other operation systems, on servers and super computers... I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop and didn't regret about it.