The Daily Download

Default mobile browsers compared: Safari versus Android

   

How does Apple's latest mobile browser hold up against the default Android browser? With iOS just out, we compare the latest mobile Safari against Android's The Browser with No Name.Read more

Symantec fixes Norton update that blocked Facebook

Security software maker says detection file update mistook Facebook for a phishing site.Read more

Topics: Security and spyware, Windows Software

Dim everything but media in Chrome or Firefox

Cinemas dim the lights during showings to help eliminate distractions, making it easier for you to focus on what you came to see. Luckily, you can get that same experience right in your Web browser.Read more

Microsoft patches IE9 with new security update

Rated critical, the new security update fixes eight different holes in Internet Explorer 9 and also resolves several non-security issues.Read more

3D Web hits the big time: Google Maps on WebGL

WebGL isn't just for bouncy-marble demos anymore. Google Maps, a major site, now uses the 3D graphics technology after years of development.Read more

Wahoo! Hardware-accelerated Opera 12 alpha arrives

WebGL graphics is a highlight of the new alpha build of Opera, but the browser also can accelerate 2D graphics, text, and CSS effects--often on Windows XP.Read more

Help, I'm getting arrested!

Inspired by a real "Occupy Wall Street" incident, the I'm Getting Arrested app for Android instantly notifies loved ones of your situation.Read more

After the Software Wars —

                                      
I dropped out of the University of Michigan at age 20 to become a full-time programmer at Microsoft, and worked there for 11 years writing code in tools, consumer, Office, Windows, Window CE, mobile, research, and MSN. After leaving, I tried out Linux, saw the potential, and studied the problems. This is the story of what I discovered…
Given currently available technology, we should already have cars that drive us around in absolute safety, leaving us to lounge comfortably in the back while sipping champagne.
We have all the hardware – the video cameras, motion sensors and high powered computers – and we’ve had this technology for decades. So why don’t cars drive themselves?



The answer is that we don’t have the software.
The software that will accomplish this vision will not be “owned” by corporations like Microsoft and Apple, who are actually impeding technological progress – it will be built by the global community.
Free software is a bit like Wikipedia, which over 2.5 years grew from nothing into the world’s largest encyclopedia. Free software is better for the free market, as free speech is better for the free market.
Programmers can make money and businesses can lower costs by using free software. After the Software Wars explains why this is true, what is still missing in this vision, and how everyone can be involved.
2010 edition, with many improvements based on feedback and criticism; money earned on the book will be given to free software.