Ansh Arora
What I read this week #3

What I read this week #3

Published on: 2024-07-21

Public Money Public Code



"Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as Free Software?
We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well. Code paid by the people should be available to the people!"



Responsibility Over Freedom: How Netflix's Culture Has Changed


The company's latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.



The state of Free and Open Source Software in India


India is well positioned to become a vibrant hub for FOSS innovations. In India, 4G data subscribers have recently crossed more than 598 million of which 96% of them access the digital world via open-source based mobile operating systems

However, India still lags behind the global landscape in building sustainable home-grown projects and needs a strategic plan to incubate and proliferate domestic FOSS innovations worldwide.



For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42


How a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians