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The open internet has always run on something that doesn't show up on any balance sheet: volunteer labor. A new piece from MIT Press traces how projects like Linux and Wikipedia were built not by corporations chasing profit, but by contributors chasing purpose. It raises a question worth sitting with — what happens to that infrastructure when the volunteers burn out or move on?
Shifting to the browser wars, the Servo engine has released version zero point seven, continuing its quiet push toward broader web compatibility. Originally born inside Mozilla and now stewarded by the Linux Foundation, Servo represents a real alternative to the Chromium monoculture. Progress has been slow, but the project is alive, and in open source, alive matters.
And in Taipei, the Taiwan Creative Content Fest opened with its chair Sue Wang asking aloud whether cultural content still has a future in an age of artificial intelligence. It's a question the creative industries worldwide are wrestling with, and the fact that a government-backed agency is centering it at a major festival suggests the anxiety is no longer just theoretical.
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