The European Commission comments about the ACTA whilst things continue to escalate

... This is a part of the hidden agenda of Microsoft to challenge the growth of free software development in India. An institution as prestigious as VTU should not Lock-In to a vendor like Microsoft and modify its curriculum based on the interests of Microsoft.

"The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet.

You don't need to fork over big bucks – or even any bucks – to keep your online activities and identity secret. The open source community has dozens of privacy-related projects in development, and some of them have already proven themselves to be among the best privacy protection tools available.

"The 3.0 version of Python (also known as Python3k and Python3000) just got released few hours ago. It's the first ever intentionally backwards-incompatible Python release."

Former Microsoft employee Keith Curtis publishes new book After the Software Wars on lulu.com. The key to faster technological progress is making software free, he writes. The difference between free, and non-free or proprietary software, is similar to the divide between science and alchemy.

For the most part, the how-to documentation on the OpenVPN website it quite good, and easy to follow. However, there are a few “gotcha’s” that the documentation doesn’t make clear. Some of these “gotcha’s” involve errors on the part of the package maintainers or developers. Some involve things that you need to do, but that the documentation doesn’t even mention.

I mean, I can barely hear myself complaining about Battlestar Galactica.