Infrastructure software provider HashiCorp is dumping the open source license for Terraform, its popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. After nearly nine years under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) v2.0, Terraform has been switched to the…Read More

Opinion Company after company has had their start in open source software, and then gone on to dump their open source licenses once they’ve achieved a measure of success. It’s time to stop it. With a handful of exceptions, everyone … Continue reading →

In an unexpected corporate restructuring move, SUSE, the European open-source powerhouse behind SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher, NeuVector, and other important open-source programs, has announced its majority owner intends to take SUSE private.…Read More

Some days, you really need a Windows application, even if you’re a die-hard Mac or Linux user. For those times, I recommend CodeWeavers’ CrossOver. The latest version, CrossOver 23, based on open-source Wine 8.01, is now available for MacOS, Linux,…Read … Continue reading →

If you thought your connections from X, the site formerly known as Twitter, to Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Substack, Reuters, and The New York Times were a bit slow recently, it wasn’t your imagination. The Washington Post discovered that X was…Read … Continue reading →

Policy has not kept pace with how essential cloud computing has become to critical systems. Cloud attacks, such as SolarWinds, aren’t the only threat as evidenced by the wildfires on Maui. Regulators and cloud companies need to work together to … Continue reading →