abstract:Hacker ethic is a term for the moral values and philosophy that are standard in the hacker community. The early hacker culture and resulting philosophy originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1950s and 1960s.
Thehackerethic forged on America’s west coast in the 1970sand 1980s was playful, open to sharing, and ready tochallenge models of proprietarycontrol, competitionand evenprivateproperty.