Software is a written medium: a collection of plain text files known as source code; and, as with any other kind of text, copyright applies to it. Once upon a time, software engineers and their corporate masters regarded source code as a valuable secret: one that should be…
As you are reading this story, displayed on a web site, you are looking at an application running on the Web. Whether you are looking at this website on your mobile phone, be it IOS or Android, or on your laptop, be it Windows, Mac, or Linux — the very same Web is making it…
As running software, the Web is represented by three browser engines: Webkit, Chromium, and Gecko. Each of these is owned by a corporation — Apple, Google, and Mozilla — but licensed as open-source software and developed in the open: subject to the details of the…
