Tag: open source

• The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

  July 16, 2022

  It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. t is one… more ›

• Internet founder scales up efforts to redesign way web works

  February 23, 2020

  Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more. https://www.ft.com/content/343febdc-5573-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20 more ›

• Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World

  December 15, 2019

  Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations. SEATTLE — Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business… more ›

• Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

  August 21, 2019

  It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as… more ›

• What comes after open source?

  February 11, 2019

  This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and posits how crypto networks can catalyze a… more ›

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar

  January 3, 2019

  Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand… more ›

• GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button

  June 9, 2018

  GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button » Oh, GitHub, we knew ye … pretty well, actually, over the past decade. At least programmers did. more ›

• Google and HTTP

  February 25, 2018

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• TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property

  December 1, 2016

  TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property » Ten years ago Bill Gates suggested that open source software was the province of “modern-day sort of communists” whose views on intellectual property were… more ›