"... several of the Convergentes members were participating in FLISOL (Festival Lationaemericano Install free software), held in the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín.

"If you are organizing with a group that believes a better world is possible and spend your energy trying to realize it, and if this world you envision is not beholden to corporate interests as our current one is, then there is something ironic and sad about using tools paid for by corporate advertising revenues to get the job done..."

"The Indian government is thinking about introducing software patents in the country. But software patents are bad for everyone except large software companies, says V Sasi Kumar..."

The question "Oracle good, or Oracle bad, for MySQL?" was generally met with a smile first, then a measured, thoughtful response on the final day of the MySQL Conference in Santa Clara. The responses were interesting, to say the least, ranging from an absolute "No way" to equally absolute "Yes, it will be great for MySQL," and lots of answers somewhere in between.

In the early days of Microsoft's FUD, one of its favourite weapons was the commissioned research report, for example comparing TCO of Windows and GNU/Linux. Amazingly, every one of those reports came out favourable to Microsoft, which was pretty astonishing – so astonishing, in fact, that nobody paid the blindest bit of notice to the things.

Linus reflects on 18 years of working on Linux, the developer ecosystem and his goal for Linux on the desktop.

Nine years ago I wrote this headline for a Linux Today story. You can read the full story below.

This is a follow-up.

"MUNICH - Farmers’ associations, environmental, aid and development organisations together with anti-patent activists of the free software movement met this week for one of the largest anti-patent rallies in Munich..."