> Yeah it's a state of mind, you do something for and with a community and not exclusively for your personal gains.
That's just as common in the U.S. - but you need a strong community of practice with high standards of achievement to really achieve this mindset. (In the real world, this would of course be an actual, physical community bound to a well-defined place, ultimately with similarly strict norms of acceptance, behavior etc.) And that can get in the way of contemporary norms against perceived "gatekeeping". Though it's interesting to see that some communities of practice (e.g. the one which is forming around Rust and Redox OS) are being more successful in navigating this challenge.
That's just as common in the U.S. - but you need a strong community of practice with high standards of achievement to really achieve this mindset. (In the real world, this would of course be an actual, physical community bound to a well-defined place, ultimately with similarly strict norms of acceptance, behavior etc.) And that can get in the way of contemporary norms against perceived "gatekeeping". Though it's interesting to see that some communities of practice (e.g. the one which is forming around Rust and Redox OS) are being more successful in navigating this challenge.