Linus's law

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A “hacker” is a person who has gone past using his computer for survival (“I bring home the bread by programming”) to the next two stages [(“social life,” and “entertainment”)].

– Linus Torvalds in “What Makes Hacker’s Tick? a.k.a Linus’s Law”, prologue to Pekka Himanen’s The Hacker Ethic, 2001

See also: This Rich to Open Source (2022)