Opinion Way back when we loaded software with punch cards and magnetic tape, all programs were “free software” and “open source.” Then along came proprietary software, and everything changed. But programmers rebelled and developed the first formal…Read More

My first computer was an IBM 360 mainframe. To use it, I relied on a 3270 terminal. From there, I quickly moved on to a PDP-11 minicomputer running Unix — where my interface was a VT-102 terminal. In those days, … Continue reading →

Like many people who play at programming, and more importantly, the ones who actually do it for a living, I use a Linux desktop. Now, well, I can’t do any better than to quote from Bluefin‘s creator, Jorge Casto, a … Continue reading →

When a company invests $13 billion in a startup, as Microsoft has with OpenAI, you would expect to get at least a few minutes prior notice when its board fired its market-leading CEO. Instead, news that OpenAI was firing Sam … Continue reading →

If you follow Linux closely, you won’t be surprised by the news from the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia — which is the invite-only meeting for top Linux kernel developers — that the recently released Linux 6.6 is the … Continue reading →

If you follow Linux closely, you won’t be surprised by the news from the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia — which is the invite-only meeting for top Linux kernel developers — that the recently released Linux 6.6 is the … Continue reading →