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i.e.: Release early release often, Sharing work vi open source, Simple and well designed vs. feature bloated, etc.
Is there already a name for this philosophy? Is it just the hacker philosophy? What else does/should it include?
I'm not sure it's a formal philosophy, but I think the attributes you're describing are lean and open.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
There's also the "Hacker Ethic" to look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
And his stuff doesn't necessarily have a name, but Eric Raymond's writings have been pretty influential to a lot of hackers.
Well, the "Unix Philosophy" is a big part of what is widely regarded as "hacker culture" so you might give this a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy There's also the "Hacker Ethic" to look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic And his stuff doesn't necessarily have a name, but Eric Raymond's writings have been pretty influential to a lot of hackers. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/