When Netscape released its Web browser’s source code to the public in 1998, it seemed like a Hail Mary move for a company embattled by Microsoft.
Now barely a week goes by without a commercial tech company announcing the launch of a new platform, app or extension—and its source code. Among them is Microsoft, a company whose then-CEO, Steve Ballmer, called the open-source Linux operating system a “cancer” in 2001.
In the last year we’ve seen Apple release the code behind the Swift programming language; Google, TensorFlow, a…
Three Reasons Why Open Source Will Have A Great 2016
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