It’s no joke. Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? As Scott Hanselman, Microsoft’s VP of the developer community, and Jeff Wilcox, head of Microsoft’s … Continue reading →

First things first. There really is such a thing as a numbat. It’s a pocket-sized marsupial anteater (see above). And now, it’s also the mascot for Canonical’s latest Linux distro, Ubuntu 24.04. I’ve been running Noble Numbat on my 2020 … Continue reading →

Seven years ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under President Donald Trump’s hand-picked Chair Ajit Pai, a former Verizon in-house lawyer, killed off net neutrality. In a decisive move, the now Democrat-controlled FCC has restored net…Read More

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SEATTLE — At The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, Linus Torvalds and his good friend Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Head of the Open Source Program Office, once more had a wide-ranging conversation about Linux development and related…Read More

SEATTLE — SPDX, the open standard for “System” Bill of Materials, takes a major step forward. For years, we needed a standard way for companies to standardize their license and component information (metadata) in software bills of material (SBOM) to…Read … Continue reading →