January 16, 2024
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The open source Terraform fork with the silly name, OpenTofu, has arrived. Well, that didn’t take long. After HashiCorp dumped its open source license for the Business Source License (BSL) for its flagship program, infrastructure as code (IaC) tool,…Read More
January 16, 2024
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The Linux Mint community has once again released a top-tier Linux desktop: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia. I’ve used more Linux distributions than most people, and Mint is my favorite desktop distro. My bias starts with Mint’s Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term…Read More
January 12, 2024
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A blend of proprietary and open source licensing is becoming more popular and is posing a threat to open source software. In a notable shift within the software industry, Delayed Open Source Publication (DOSP) has emerged as a nuanced strategy…Read More
January 12, 2024
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The great computer scientist Niklaus Wirth has died, but his work will endure forever. I come not to mourn Wirth, a computer science titan who passed away on Jan. 1 at 89, but to praise him. While the public won’t recognize his name, his…Read More
January 12, 2024
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Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy’s (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doctorate by Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her work for open source and software freedom. There was only one problem. Her…Read More
January 11, 2024
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Akamai’s team of security experts has discovered a new cryptomining campaign, dubbed NoaBot, leveraging the SSH protocol to spread its malware. Mirai is a self-propagating worm that can turn consumer devices running Linux on ARC processors into…Read More