The SCO Wars
Linux, Unix copyrights, and a seven-year legal fight over open source
NOTES
Writing
Open source history, computing topics, and notes from things I wanted to understand more carefully.
Apple's M4 and ARM
Performance, efficiency, and the limits of a closed silicon ecosystem
Netscape, the Browser Wars, and Mozilla
How an open source release outlived the company that started it
Self-hosting an AT Protocol PDS
Running a Personal Data Server on a Raspberry Pi
Apache HTTP Server
How a patchwork of NCSA httpd fixes became the web's default server
The AT Protocol
A federated model for social apps, account portability, and open schemas
Linux
From a Helsinki hobby kernel to the default engine of servers and phones
The GNU Project
Free software principles, the GPL, and the missing kernel
IBM, antitrust, and closed platforms
What mid-century computing dominance still illustrates about lock-in