The Most Used Technology in the World Has Zero Marketing and Product People
3.9 billion phones, 174 million TVs, all 500 supercomputers. One product runs them all. It has no marketing team, no product managers, and no single brand.
Topic
Open Source
A collection of 126 issues
Linux Memory Had One Maintainer for 26 Years. He Just Quit. Now What?
One person held the code that runs every Android phone, cloud server, and supercomputer for 26 years. On April 21, he posted one message and then was silent.
He Co-Founded LibreOffice. They Just Expelled Him.
In 2010, he escaped Oracle and co-founded LibreOffice. Sixteen years later, his own foundation turned against him. This is the third time. None survived.
$100 Million. The Most Advanced AI Model Ever Built. Just Marketing Hype.
Anthropic spent $100 million on an AI model too dangerous for public release. Then they pointed it at curl. The maintainer published his verdict.
$575 Million Founder. 12 Developers. The Product Running 60% of the Cloud.
Shuttleworth sold his company for $575M, sailed to Antarctica, and invited 12 Debian developers to his London flat. Ubuntu shipped six months later.
The Bug That Gave Root to Everyone. 9 Years. Every Linux Distro.
CopyFail hid in the Linux kernel for 9 years. A 732-byte script gives root on every major distro. And this is not the first time.
More Than 5 Million Users Trust 24 Unpaid Volunteers With Their Operating System
They have no installer, budget, or corporation behind them. By every business metric, they should be dead. They are not.
Zuckerberg's Open Source Manifesto Lasted 21 Months with One Billion Downloads
Zuckerberg promised open source AI in 2024. One billion downloads later, Meta shipped a closed model. What happened in between is older than AI.
Linux 7.1: Kicinski Called It 'LLM-pocalypse.' Then Deleted 138,000 Lines.
The Linux networking maintainer wrote about an ‘LLM-pocalypse’ in the same pull request that deleted 138,000 lines from the kernel.
Fedora 44: An Open Linux Release Ubuntu Cannot Copy
Zero telemetry, packages you can host yourself, and a community that overruled Red Hat in 2023. IBM still pays the engineers.