Peru Passes Free Software Law - That's Free as in Free Speech, Sep 27, 2005

Peru has passed its law encouraging procurement of Free Software by the government. Please note that the law is about Free Software, not Open Source, as opposed to proprietary software, distinguished by license.

2.6.14-rc2-git6 has been released today.
See changelog for full details.

Files added: 4
Files changed: 296
Files removed: 0

"One issue is that I actually worry that Andrew will at some point be where I was a couple of years ago — overworked and stressed out by just tons and tons of patches," said Torvalds. "If Andrew burns out, we'll all suffer hugely."

The University wasted a whopping $2.7 million recently by purchasing licenses of Microsoft Office and Windows XP Pro for each registered student as Don Parris pointed out in his Sept. 15 letter.

Asked whether his previous job and intimate relationships with many executives of Microsoft Korea drew back the decision of tilting toward open-source programs, he flatly denied the guess.

The Jordan Commercial Bank (JCBank) has implemented a new and comprehensive banking system, based on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Application Server 10g, and deployed on a Linux operating system.

Making the desktop more attractive and usable is obviously a major priority for the KDE Project, but providing a development platform is equally important

There are very few people in the world who fully understand Open Source. Sure, you can understand it from a technical perspective, but the social threads that cascade through the thousands of sub-communities are intensely difficult to truly understand.

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