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The history of computing shows pretty clearly that once a standard operating system, together with inexpensive and easy-to-use programming tools, becomes available, an explosion of application software is likely to follow.

Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Looking at the landscape of open source software today, I note two things. First, successful open source platforms tend to be partnered with caretaker organizations. Wikipedia has the Wikimedia Foundation, Linux has the constellation of organizations around the Linux Foundation, and Kubernetes has the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Second, open... See more

Jason Barrett Prado • DAOs are interesting, likely, and terrifying

Jarrod Dicker of the Washington Post had a great insight about the rise of “expensable media” (think Stratechery, The Information, 2PM) and its positive impact on the creator ecosystem. This same effect could fuel a massive expansion in the consumer subscription software market that is compounded by a shift away from the office and its bundled amen... See more

Brett Bivens • Consumer Subscription Trends

But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts

Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Linux is without question the biggest and most professional operating system in the world, today found on everything from the servers in data centers bigger than a football field to over 1.5 billion Android phones and tablets.

Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

The quest for perfect information.

Steve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)

Code, like any other type of content available online today, is trending toward modularity: a mille-feuille layer cake of little libraries instead of one big, jiggling Jell-O mold. Today, developers publish bits of code online, for public use, as easily as others discover and use them. But just as tweets are easy to read and retweet without context

Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

“For a system to be successful, the users of the system have to perceive that it’s directly valuable to them,” Schachter says. “If you need scale in order to create value, it’s hard to get scale, because there’s little incentive for the first people to use the product. Ideally, the system should be useful for user number one.”

David Talbot • Joshua Schachter

Nick Statt, “Microsoft at 40: Read Bill Gates’ Anniversary Email to Employees,” CNET, April 3, 2015, https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/microsoft-at-40-read-bill-gates-anniversary-email-to-employees/