Practical Technology

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named Richard M. Stallman (RMS) was having trouble with a…Read More

Back in 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Donald Trump’s hand-picked Chair Ajit Pai, a former Verizon in-house lawyer, dumped net neutrality. Now the FCC is back up to its full five-member quorum and current FCC Chair…Read More

Opinion I run my computers until they die. I’m cheap that way and it’s one reason why I’m a Linux fan. Thanks to Linux, I have PCs that are closing in on 20 years of useful life. But I also like computers that come with serious long-term support. In…Read More

In a way, open source and artificial intelligence were born together. Back in 1971, if you’d mentioned AI to most people, they might have thought of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. However, AI was already a real subject that year at MIT, where…Read More

BILBAO, Spain – The digital wallet took another step toward world domination as Microsoft joined the horde of tech and financial organizations supporting the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF). At the Open Source Summit Europe, the OWF, a Linux…Read More

BILBAO, SPAIN — When HashiCorp opted out of its open source license for the Business Source License (BSL) for its flagship program, infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, Terraform, they doubtlessly expected some opposition from the open source…Read More