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THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 5

By Annika Vestergaard · 4 parts · 14 h 36 min · English

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Between 1980 and 2026 the world's computing came to rest on code given away and then maintained for years by people nobody was paying. This is an account of six of them and what the carrying cost. Fabrice Bellard writes a video decoder in 2000 and walks away from it; Michael Niedermayer spends two decades reviewing patches for software that ships inside nearly every phone on earth. David Patterson gives away an instruction set. Chris Lattner gives away a compiler. George Hotz gives away a driving stack and is sued over a console. Pieter Levels and Peter Steinberger build alone, in public, one of them until he stops. Then in March 2024 a backdoor in a compression tool shows what a single exhausted volunteer means for everyone downstream. Covers Fabrice Bellard, Michael Niedermayer, David Patterson, Chris Lattner, George Hotz, Pieter Levels, Peter Steinberger, FFmpeg, and LLVM.

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  1. Part 01

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  2. Part 02

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  3. Part 03

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  4. Part 04

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Books in this series

  1. THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 1

    4 parts · 13 h 52 min

  2. THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 2

    4 parts · 15 h 11 min

  3. THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 3

    4 parts · 16 h 50 min

  4. THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 9 min

  5. THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 36 min

  6. THE CODE ANYBODY MAY READ Book 6

    4 parts · 14 h 1 min