The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
Opinion Allowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone
Columnists25 Oct 2024 | 45
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system; 300bps was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state of the art word processor; and we liked it! Steven is an advisor to Cathey Communications, a PR company which represents CIQ, a FOSS company that work on behalf of Rocky Linux
Elon Musk's disaster relief promises: Should we believe the hype?
Opinion When you look behind the headlines, you'll find unfulfilled commitments
Networks17 Oct 2024 | 94
OpenAI reportedly considering for-profit plans, but what would that be good for?
Opinion Even investors might not get much out of it
AI + ML27 Sep 2024 | 25
Begun, the open source AI wars have
Opinion This is going to be ugly. Really ugly
AI + ML14 Sep 2024 | 48
CockroachDB scurries off to proprietary software land
Opinion As VC-owned fauxpen source biz yells 'show me the money,' more may follow to the peril of the community
Software23 Aug 2024 | 18
Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering
Opinion Chipzilla taking some punches but could it stay down?
Columnists09 Aug 2024 | 94
CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will
Opinion And boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again
Patches26 Jul 2024 | 98
The graying open source community needs fresh blood
Opinion Deep experience of the older tech crowd is nothing short of vital, yet projects need new devs to move forward
Software15 Jul 2024 | 150
Windows: Insecure by design
Opinion Get your hands off my computer, Microsoft!
OSes28 Jun 2024 | 214
Let's take a look at Oracle's love and hate relationship with open source software
Opinion All businesses use FOSS now, but Big Red never been entirely comfortable with it
Software14 Jun 2024 | 11
Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here?
Opinion Here's the tea, for all open sourcers inclined to drink it
Software24 May 2024 | 27
Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?
Opinion Terraform maker's programs are ideal fit for Big Blue, but why splash out when the software's free and open?
Devops10 May 2024 | 48
The hyper-clouds are open source's friends
Opinion No, really. Look at the evidence
Software27 Apr 2024 | 14
Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source
Opinion Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear
Applications12 Apr 2024 | 37
NVD slowdown leaves thousands of vulnerabilities without analysis data
Opinion Security world reacts as NIST does a lot less of oft criticized, 'almost always thankless' work
Security22 Mar 2024 | 5
The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things
Opinion All too many 'smart' devices are security stupid
Edge + IoT09 Mar 2024 | 58
Are you ready to back up your AI chatbot's promises? You'd better be
Opinion Air Canada discovered the hard way that when your ML model makes a commitment, your biz will be on the hook for it
AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 79
Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?
Opinion Could it have more to do with browser's ever-increasing irrelevance?
Software09 Feb 2024 | 118
The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops
Opinion It takes more than open source, it takes open standards and consensus
OSes27 Jan 2024 | 111
Your pacemaker should be running open source software
Opinion Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery
OSes12 Jan 2024 | 53
Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?
Opinion From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
Personal Tech22 Dec 2023 | 168
What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck
Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly
Networks08 Dec 2023 | 86
Do we really need another non-open source available license?
Opinion No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters
OSes24 Nov 2023 | 70
Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god
Opinion At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever
Off-Prem10 Nov 2023 | 60
The battle between open source and 'sort of' open source is as old as software
Opinion There's nothing new about HashiCorp leaving the principle behind
OSes27 Oct 2023 | 34
Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?
Opinion The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2023 | 82
Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech
Opinion A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you
OSes22 Sep 2023 | 98
From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?
Opinion WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is?
Devops01 Sep 2023 | 68
A license to trust: Can you rely on 'open source' companies?
Opinion Sometimes nothing fails like success
OSes18 Aug 2023 | 27
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop
Opinion Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud
OSes04 Aug 2023 | 311
Meta can call Llama 2 open source as much as it likes, but that doesn't mean it is
Opinion For Zuck, it's just another marketing phrase. For developers, it's the rules of the road
AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 37
Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in
Opinion Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care
OSes07 Jul 2023 | 115
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does
Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 98
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?
Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?
OSes09 Jun 2023 | 159
Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data
Opinion Says it'll keep track of what it hoovers up at post-layoff summit
Applications26 May 2023 | 17
EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers
Opinion The road to hell is paved with good intentions
OSes12 May 2023 | 82
Here's how the data we feed AI determines the results
Opinion Generative AI hallucinations are the least of our problems
AI + ML28 Apr 2023 | 31
Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power
Opinion Middle aged spread begins as it joins IBM
OSes14 Apr 2023 | 25
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
Software24 Mar 2023 | 29
Musk said Twitter would open source its algorithm – then fired the people who could
Opinion Like so many of his promises, it's probably one he can't keep
Software10 Mar 2023 | 157
Who writes Linux and open source software?
Opinion Developers and, more to the point, the companies that employ them
OSes24 Feb 2023 | 111
ChromeOS now runs on top of Linux and, er, Zephyr ...
Column Google's finest via the what now? Plus: RISC-V-powered Chromebook isn't out of the question
OSes14 Feb 2023 | 15
What is Google doing with its open source teams?
Opinion Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard
Software27 Jan 2023 | 49
For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden
Opinion After the security breach last summer, staying put is playing with fire
Cyber-crime16 Jan 2023 | 131
Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too
Opinion Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff
Networks23 Dec 2022 | 150
Linux kernel 6.1: Rusty release could be a game-changer
Opinion Don't sob into your battered copy of K&R though, the shift will move slowly
OSes09 Dec 2022 | 57
How do you solve the problem that is Twitter?
Opinion Technically and leadership-wise what site needs is stability
Personal Tech06 Dec 2022 | 153
GitHub's Copilot flies into its first open source copyright lawsuit
Opinion It won't be the last
AI + ML11 Nov 2022 | 91
Why I love my Chromebook: Reason 1, it's a Linux desktop
Column We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner
OSes28 Oct 2022 | 152
Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop
Opinion But, it won't play out the way you think it will
OSes14 Oct 2022 | 151
Is it time to retire C and C++ for Rust in new programs?
Column Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, thinks so
Software28 Sep 2022 | 197
The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring
Column Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane'
Software16 Sep 2022 | 55
Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop
Opinion It makes perfect sense for enterprises as well as enthusiasts. Just ask GitLab
Security10 Aug 2022 | 259
Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days
Opinion 'The Evil Empire' hasn't been evil for about eight years now
Software13 Jul 2022 | 167
I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well
Comment Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of this OS ever being bigger than Windows
OSes08 Jun 2022 | 270
Open-source leaders' reputations as jerks is undeserved
Opinion In fact, most of them are great people
Software12 May 2022 | 99
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
Column Anyone who tells you Linux is hard to use wasn't paying attention – and here's why
OSes13 Apr 2022 | 466
Where are the (serious) Russian cyberattacks?
Column Sure, HermeticWiper and IssacWiper are bad, but they're not BAD in capital letters
Security09 Mar 2022 | 102
Securing open-source code isn't going to be cheap
Column Devs and maintainers are getting paid ... though not to concentrate on security
Software09 Feb 2022 | 85
Open source isn't the security problem – misusing it is
Opinion Security is a process, not a product
Software12 Jan 2022 | 43
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