I was wondering if there is a philosophy that most encompasses what most hackers on this sight seem to live by.<p>i.e.: Release early release often,
Sharing work vi open source,
Simple and well designed vs. feature bloated,
etc.<p>Is there already a name for this philosophy? Is it just the hacker philosophy? What else does/should it include?
Well, the "Unix Philosophy" is a big part of what is widely regarded as "hacker culture" so you might give this a look:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy</a><p>There's also the "Hacker Ethic" to look at:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic</a><p>And his stuff doesn't necessarily have a name, but Eric Raymond's writings have been pretty influential to a lot of hackers.<p><a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/" rel="nofollow">http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/</a>