Practical Technology

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

Some days, you really need a Windows application, even if you’re a die-hard Mac or Linux user. For those times, I recommend CodeWeavers’ CrossOver. The latest version, CrossOver 23, based on open-source Wine 8.01, is now available for MacOS, Linux,…Read More

If you thought your connections from X, the site formerly known as Twitter, to Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Substack, Reuters, and The New York Times were a bit slow recently, it wasn’t your imagination. The Washington Post discovered that X was…Read More

Policy has not kept pace with how essential cloud computing has become to critical systems. Cloud attacks, such as SolarWinds, aren’t the only threat as evidenced by the wildfires on Maui. Regulators and cloud companies need to work together to make…Read More

It’s getting to be a bad joke. Companies such as Confluent, MongoDB, Elastic, and Redis Labs start with an open source project. They achieve a measure of success, then they, or their venture-capital backers, decided they’re not cashing out enough, so…Read More