"December 26th 2008: Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. This speech will be part of the Freedom in Computer Technology 2008 conference..."

"On Wednesday the 7th, EFF will be celebrating our 18th year of defending digital rights with our biggest bash yet! ..."

A fork of Openoffice based of Sun's OO , in the lines of GNU Icecat, would be a nice idea.

"Perl 5's source code is no longer locked into the odious proprietary Perforce repository where it's been hosted for years. It's now hosted in the git distributed version control system. This is a huge win..."

Sugar Labs, a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, is joining the GNOME Foundation as part of the GNOME Advisory Board. Sugar Labs creates software for young children used on platforms like the One Laptop Per Child's XO. Sugar is based on the GNOME platform and relies on technologies like GTK+ and Telepathy.

"Dear Reader, Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users? [...] We share a common cause: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment..."

Here’s a minor thought dump of the moment: no hard numbers, just some general observations over the past year or two.

We hope you've enjoyed the “The 12 Bugs of Software” we've posted last week. As promised, we will keep the tech jokes coming because it's the season to be jolly (falalalala lalalala).Our next set of jokes will surely tickle some of our geeky readers’ funny bones.