All posts tagged: open source

Code for the People

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Code for the People is a new documentary about open source, as told through the story of WordPress.

Tune in to hear me talk about getting my first PC (in the cow print box!) and what makes WordPress so special.

The open web is arguably the world’s most vital invisible utility–and it is under siege.

We have traded a free internet for a collection of walled gardens. Today, a handful of digital landlords use algorithms to dictate our reality, while closed AI threatens to change the ways we connect. We are at a breaking point: we can either let gatekeepers continue to consolidate their power, or we can reclaim the open source spirit that built the web in the first place.

The future of the internet is being decided right now and it needs our help.

Matt Cutts on the scarcity of open source services

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Matt Cutts on the scarcity of open source services:

Open source is really good at creating products. Almost any commercial software package or product like Word, Excel, Windows, or Photoshop has a great open source equivalent. However, open source has been less successful at creating services. Where’s the open source version of Google, or Facebook, or Twitter, or Gmail, or Craigslist?

I (unsurprisingly) think the answer looks a lot like WordPress and Automattic, with a combination of distributed and centralized systems complementing each other.