Operating systems, infrastructure, emulation, and technical history.
How Apple's 2008 SDK and App Store paired native mobile software with code signing, review, global distribution, and platform control.
How Microsoft's $7.5 billion all-stock GitHub acquisition joined developer infrastructure to its cloud strategy—and why trust mattered.
How Netscape commercialized the browser, lost distribution to Microsoft, opened its code, joined AOL, and left Mozilla behind.
How Richard Stallman's 1985 manifesto turned the GNU operating-system plan into an ethical, technical, and economic argument for user freedom.
The Microsoft antitrust case preserved monopoly-maintenance liability but replaced a breakup order with conduct rules, disclosures, and oversight.
The January 2010 transaction that put Java, Solaris, MySQL, and major server assets under Oracle—and reshaped their communities.
The April 30, 1993 statement signed by CERN's directors that put the core Web software in the public domain — and what it changed at a decisive moment.
How a strategy meeting, Netscape's source release, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines produced a new advocacy label.
How five missing table entries produced rare Pentium division errors, a $475 million charge, and a lasting lesson in technical trust.
How SCO's Unix contract suit became a threat to Linux, fractured over evidence and copyright ownership, and ended in a 2021 settlement.