FOSS and how to successfully build on top of the shoulders of giants
Ever wondered about the invisible engines driving our digital world? Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is part of mostly every major engineering component which powers our life. It is in Android phones as the linux kernel, in your banking apps, in the Operating Systems for every microcontroller in your car, everywhere in the web, where it powers engines, websites-generation toolkits, servers, and touches basially everything you can think of. However, despite its ubiquity, many people still wonder where is it, who owns it, how can I use it, and benefit from it. In this blog post we will try to answer some of those questions, delving into the actors, sinergies, and logics of FOSS.
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