The silence of ownership. As I already posted some months ago, we live in an age where we no longer own what we buy. The phrase sounds exaggerated until one realizes that nearly every object we purchase, from a…
A storm hit social media this week. FFmpeg maintainers, the developers behind one of the world’s most important open-source multimedia libraries, were accused of demanding monetary compensation and license acknowledgments from commercial platforms using their code. Among those…
There’s a quiet shift happening in the digital world, so quiet, most people don’t notice it until it’s too late. We’re living in a time where you can spend money on something, hold a receipt in your inbox, see…