Is open source the same as (real) hacking?

Question

i heard sombody describe the open source community and they sounded the same

Answer 1

THEY ARE - THE TRUE DEFINITION OF HACKING IS WRITING CODE, OPEN SOURCE USES PEOPLE'S PERSONAL CODES/SCRIPTS - HENCE TO BE EXACT THEY ARE ALL HACKERS...

THE EVIL HACKERS ARE CALLED CRACKERS, AND ONE WHO USES THEIR TOOLS, AND DOESNT KNOW HOW TO CODE IS CALLED A SCRIPT-KIDDIE - THEY ARE NOT LIKES BY ANYONE.

BUT, HACKING IS A FORM OF ART, OR POETRY TO MANY HACKERS/CODERS ITS ALL THE SAME, JUST MAYBE A DIFFERENT MENTATLITY

Answer 2

FOSS = Free, Open Source Software. People write programs, and give the source code with them, so you can actually see what is inside. No hidden back doors, no tricks, no exploits.
It is FREE like Speech, NOT like beer! They can still charge money for the program, and for support. But, not for the source code!

Hacking = Term for when we typed on typewriters, and sort of hacked at the article we were writing... punching with our fingers on the keyboard...when we really couldn't get our thoughts together, or we had writers block, or were getting lazy... then, it was later transferred to mean an old hand at the trade...

Now, Hacking means that you have investigated all the parameters of a device or a program, and know it well.
Hackers are at a professional level with the code. These folks wear White hats, and save us from 'bad things' like DRM.

"Cracking" is the nefarious art of breaking into a program or a system to get to the program and then changing something, and leaving no trace. Just like "Safe-Cracking" in a sense of robbing a bank vault.

First4Internet took the Linux LAMP project, an audio program, and changed it to go from a Sony Audio CDrom into your Microsoft system, and to call home to Sony everytime you played a Sony CD.

This was followed by a disclosure 11 months later, after almost 7 million ablbums were sold under 69 artists,
that the program installed before you even saw the disclosure form, and before you could have rejected that action.

The Sony response was to issue a 'fix' and a 'remover' that only installed MORE heinous DRM programs! Sony and First4Internet are Black Hat pirates, and are in lawsuits by at least 40 groups and governments.

Hope this helps you understand it all! Get, and run, the LiveCDrom, http://pclinuxos.com that has 1900 games, and programs and boots in the CDrom, runs in RAM.

Microsoft runs Linux on 45,000 Corporate computers for hotmail, MSN, and Microsoft.com, and all routers and firewalls.

Answer 3

Hacking typically involves trying to break into programs and servers and the like. It uses techniques such as reverse engineering and the like to gain access to the innards of software and hardware.
Open Source simply provides the source code for software, allowing users to do with it whatever they wish. If by hacking, you mean tweaking software to have it do what you want, then open source simply facilitates that.

Answer 4

NO... Open Source is just that OPEN SOURCE CODE... HACKING IS HACKING.... its safe...