Spurred by a $10,000 grant from WorldLabel, the Free Software Foundation has released a “high priority list” of code changes it needs.

Bruce Momjian, guru of PostgreSQL, has discovered the joys of Perl [...] What was surprising to me was how he'd learned, via a book I'd never heard of before, Learning Perl The Hard Way..."

Anoop presented the vision behind the Freedom Walk and offered Free Software as a viable solution for the technical needs and offered help from the Free Software community inexploring possible technical opportunities. The dean was impressed with the concept and he requested for workshops on Free Software and possibly on Free Software GIS software also.

The end of 2008 might see the dawn of a new revolution in the computer industry and in people’s lives. Maybe 2009 will be remembered as the year when the “world went mobile”. What does this mean for the (free and non-free) software industry?

Today is GNU's 25th Birthday and the FSF Student Chapter at GRIET, my college (of which I am a member too) celebrated the event with great enthusiasm.

As countries around the world modernize their public elections process, the big problem with electronic voting machines is that the market is moving slow to provide equipment which fulfills all of the requirements for a fully democratic election. In many cases, printed proof of a citizen’s vote is still needed, in case the machine has buggy software or if there is suspicion of fraud.

Recently, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, came out basically saying that Solaris, Sun's recently open-sourced operating system, will never go anywhere. He even took a shot at it being open-source, saying that open-sourcing it was 'too little and too late'