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Hacker culture and FOSS communities tend not to be associated with humility, at least in the popular consciousness. There is also a kind of romantic heroism attributed to visionary and brazen hackers who push forward with their single‐minded projects, beating the odds and showing up naysayers (Levy, 1994). A lack of humility can also be seen in the overzealous factions of different open source communities who use humor and mockery to disparage competing projects. Such in‐crowd humor builds camaraderie within one group while closing the group off to others (Coleman, 2013).

However, technical work itself is also extremely humbling. As a programmer you must continually seek support from others, and deal constantly with failure in the form of bugs and broken code. In such a context, being open to new technologies, methods and solutions, and recognizing their strengths is necessary. Openness and humility can therefore also be seen as intrinsic to technical work and in particular open source software production, which preaches releasing “early and often” and being open to the improvements suggested by others. It should also be noted such intrinsic openness extends beyond seeking optimal technical solutions, and in some ways open source culture was founded on the difficult work of inclusivity. Although the history of the rapid rise of open source software in the 1990s is sometimes presented as a cooptation of the free software movement (Morozov, 2013), in practice it required finding ways to balance the wishes of civic‐ and market‐oriented factions of the community and ensure their collaboration (Stevenson, 2018).