Open source — simply explained

Ten videos, under a minute each.

Published on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. Players appear here as each episode goes live.

The long version.

Every episode has an article that goes deeper — with commands, screenshots and links you can actually follow.

• 01 Is Android open source? What share of Android is actually open — and who gets to audit it. 4 min
• 02 Who is Linus Torvalds and what did he build? From Linux 1.0 in 1991 to Android today — how one kernel ended up under most of the world's technology. 4 min
• 03 How do open source companies make money? Red Hat, Canonical, Apache — where the money in free software actually comes from. 3 min
• 04 Who writes open source, and how? Thirty countries, one codebase — a map of commits from around the world. 4 min
• 05 MIT, GPL, Apache: what they mean for you Three licences, three philosophies — and how to pick one for your own project. 4 min
• 06 Can you hide a backdoor in open source? Open code can be read end to end. Closed code you simply take on trust. 4 min
• 07 Why big tech pays for open source Google, Microsoft and Amazon pour money into the Linux Foundation. What exactly for? 4 min
• 08 LibreOffice or Microsoft Office compared A free suite against a subscription — what you actually gain, and what you give up. 3 min
• 09 Is open code safer than closed? Closed code against ten thousand pairs of eyes — which one ends up with fewer holes? 4 min
• 10 Who maintains open source, and why for free? Why volunteers build and maintain the infrastructure the world runs on. 4 min