Di sei mesi fa, ma non l'avevo notato. jc * --------- Microsoft and the Yeoman Coders** * /By Gavin Mueller / This past week, Microsoft acquired <https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-bi...> open-source code repository GitHub. In the /longue durée/ of the tech industry, it was a world-historical about-face: open-source code, which allows other programmers and interested parties to view, and even copy and modify code, arose in opposition to software companies that rely on strong intellectual property protections to wall off their products from technologically skilled users. In its early days, personal computing was a hobbyist pursuit in which young men (and it was mostly men) tinkered collectively with mail-order kits. Commercial software was scarce: you had to program things yourself. Within this milieu arose a robust culture of cracking things open and sharing what insights you found. Learning from others’ code was commonplace, as was passing around programs. [...] continua qui: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/github-microsoft-open-source-code-technology