This history of Apple Computer's first fifty years captures the ethos and the energy that drew me out to Silicon Valley in 1979:

https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl

So much had to line up right to create this world-changing company, but most of all, the right people with the right goals had to come together. I'm grateful they did, I type out on my Macbook Air.

Gift link came my way via @gruber's Daring Fireball.

Here's an excellent thing to do with four minutes of your life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

There's been no significant litigation to establish case law on FOSS licensing. That's always bugged me, but I get it -- we behave as if the licenses are valid (and, yeah, I think so?), and folks who consume the code have mostly caved when threatened with lawsuits.

But now it gets interesting. Models trained on FOSS will do clean-room implementations of GPL code to get rid of virality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6godSEVvcmU

I'm out of the racket, but somebody oughtta take this one to court.

Been a while since I mentioned this so I am allowed to rail about it once again:

Holy moly, Xcode on MacOS needs the most frequent updates of the most ginormous size of any piece of code I interact with. What I want to do is make some pull requests. What I'm gonna do is wait for Xcode to suck down a substantial fraction of Apple's IP and install it on my laptop.