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Not necessarily, it just needs some education about the name. See for example also the OK results in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Germany#German_St...

Think about what a childish and ridiculous name "Google" is and still it got adopted worldwide.

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I don't have any stats, but anecdotal evidence suggests that education on the term "hacker" hasn't been very effective, yet.

In my experience hacker has gone from "definitely a criminal" 5-10 years ago to "maybe a criminal" today. When I tell people (not in the tech scene) that I read a site called "Hacker News" they don't assume that it's some CC swapping forum. I'd say that's progress.

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