Practical Technology

If you’re not involved in machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI), chances are you’ve never heard of PyTorch. If you are, however, it’s a different story. Meta’s open-source PyTorch ML is very popular in building all manner of AI…Read More

Repeat after me and V.M. “Vicky” Brasseur, well-known open-source business strategist: “Open source is not a business model.” It’s a software development model that can be used as part of many business models. That doesn’t stop businesses based on…Read More

To me, “quiet quitting” — just doing the basics of your job and not going above and beyond the call of duty — is a mystery. Then again, I’m a lifelong workaholic who loves his work. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky enough to be able to make a…Read More

For over three years now, Linux, not Windows Server, has been the most popular virtual machine (VM) operating system on Microsoft Azure. And, of all the Linux distributions used on the cloud, Canonical Ubuntu has long been the most popular. Alas,…Read More

In open source’s early days, its main intellectual property (IP) enemy was copyright lawsuits from proprietary companies. They wanted to squash open-source projects before they could become deadly rivals. The most famous example of this was with the…Read More

CIQ is a relatively new company. Its leadership, however, has deep roots in open-source software and Linux. Besides Gregory M. Kurtzer, CIQ’s co-founder and CEO, who was a creator of CentOS, the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone, its new…Read More