Ethics and principles

Main article: Hacker ethic

Many of the values and tenets of the free and open source software movement stem from the hacker ethics that originated at MIT^[5] and at the Homebrew Computer Club.^{[citation needed]} The Hacker Ethics were chronicled by Steven Levy in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution^[6] and in other texts.^{[citation needed]}
Hacker ethics are concerned primarily with sharing, openness, collaboration,^{[citation needed]} and engaging in the Hands-On Imperative.^[6]
Linus Torvalds, one of the leaders of the Open Source movement (Known primarily for developing Linux's core), has noted in the book "The Hacker Ethic"^[7] that these principles have evolved from the known Protestant Ethics and incorporates the spirits of capitalism, as introduced in the early 20th century by Max Weber.