Practical Technology

When anyone middle-aged or younger dies, It’s a cliche that they died much too young. Sometimes, it’s really true, though. Someone dies who’s a true, innovative leader who was changing the world for the better. Such a person was Kris Nóva. I can’t…Read More

Anyone who follows me on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, or any other social network for that matter, knows I post a lot of tech and dad memes and links to stories. So, I was concerned when when I saw that Tom Coates, a well-known technology…Read More

Let’s go back to 1993. Bill Clinton is president, Jurassic Park is selling out movie tickets, UB40’s redo of Can’t Help Falling in Love is number one on the Billboard charts, and Purdue college student Ian Murdock announces the creation of a new…Read More

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 uses open source…Read More

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