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Microsoft and the Yeoman Coders
By Gavin Mueller
This past week, Microsoft acquired
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.
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https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/github-microsoft-open-source-code-technology