Open Source History: Tracing the Origins of Hacker Culture and the Hacker Ethic

Posted by Mcusanelli on Apr 29, 2015 9:36 PM EDT
www.thevarguy.com; By Chris Tozzi
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It is difficult to associate open source programmers and companies with what some writers have called "hacker culture" or "the hacker ethic." Instead, open source values, and projects such as Linux, can be traced to academia.

What inspires open source programmers, defines their culture and sets the open source world apart from that of proprietary software development? That's an important question for understanding what drives the creation of monumental platforms such as Linux, OpenStack and Hadoop. It's also one that can only be answered through a careful look at the history of what open source leaders have called "hacker culture" and the "hacker ethic."

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