Product vs. Technology

 October 10, 2022

Every so often, I have a conversation with someone, and we end up in a sub-conversation around the differences between products and technologies. This phenomenon frequently happens to me because I consider a product and a technology two completely different things. At the same time, many people use them interchangeably when discussing IT products and technologies. I think this distinction’s value is clearly distinguishing the solutions that are resilient to a single entity failure and those that are not.

CentOS Linux 8 EOL

 December 31, 2021

In December 2020, the CentOS Project announced a series of changes. The three most important are: the creation of CentOS Stream and the consequent rename of CentOS (the classic Linux distribution the project is known for) in CentOS Linux the anticipation to today (31/12/2021) of the End Of Life for CentOS Linux 8 the fact that CentOS Linux 8 is going to be the last and that from now on, only CentOS Stream will have new releases That announcement created a lot of different sentiments in the community and even more among the CentOS Linux users.

MongoDB's SSPL

 October 18, 2018

A couple of days ago, Eliot Horowitz, CTO & co-founder of MongoDB announced that MongoDB is moving from the AGPL to the SSPL license. The SSPL is a new license, just created by MongoDB. In the post, Eliot points out that they created the SSPL starting from the AGPL, and he affirms that the new license guarantees all the freedoms the AGPL does. I firmly believe that the SSPL is not a FLOSS license since it limits the possibility of the cloud providers to provide an “as a service” version of it.

How and why releasing open source code is an advantage for a company

 October 27, 2016 -  Milano, IT

FLOSS for companies, the public sector, and schools

 October 24, 2015 -  Vignate, IT

Elettronica Libera

 March 21, 2015 -  Settala, IT

Today ViGLug organized the “Elettronica Libera” (free, as-speech, electronics) event in Settala. In the morning, we had many sessions, and the focus was more on the general public and promoting those ideas with non-expert people. In the morning, many topics were covered, such as the various boards available, Linux, and the open-source software around them. In the afternoon, the focus moved to more advanced topics, such as GPIO, OpenWrt, the networking bits, as well as a hands-on session.

Experiment with the BeagleBoard

 March 21, 2015 -  Settala, IT

GNU/Linux in the enterprise world

 March 21, 2015 -  Settala, IT

Free Software opportunities for companies, the public sector, and schools

 October 25, 2014 -  Melzo, IT

WordPress

 October 26, 2013 -  Vignate, IT