(Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog
July 31, 2024
Last month, the Ansible Forum had a discussion about potential changes that might be implemented in AWX. One aspect that immediately hit me was the decision to move from SemVer to CalVer. More specifically, what struck me was the focus on this change in the initial post and in the comments. Since it took me a while to formulate a whole reasoning behind my perspective, I created this blog post to explain my thought process better.
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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. Suppose the producer of a product goes out of business or, for any reason, will not do additional business with you. In that case, you lose the ability to buy that product and, sometimes, even use it completely. This limitation does not apply to a technology since you should be able to access it, regardless of the specific vendor.
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December 31, 2021
In December 2020, the CentOS Project announced a series of changes. The three most important are:
That announcement created a lot of different sentiments in the community and even more among the CentOS Linux users. As many predicted, multiple solutions are now available for the users that used to be on CentOS Linux.
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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. This case might seem trivial and an edge case, but the complete freedom of usage is one of the FLOSS movement and licenses pillars.
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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.
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