The fact that the developers of two projects with common goals decided to get along together is news in the Free Software world. What we usually hear are the announcements of new forks. I was very glad to read that the developers of two projects, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs, which are open source tools that can [...]

If you are in “Rome“, the above is a golden rule to follow, if you really care about surviving there. That also means that you will most probably have to do things in different ways than you had initially planned or in ways that are against your principals or code of conduct. But, in return, [...]

Since a long time ago I wanted to install Windows 7 and OpenSolaris on a physical partition and use them a bit, so to form an opinion about them. Although it is a bit early for a review, I decided to post a few thoughts about them.

It took me several years to realize that I have serious issues with a particular kind of evangelists. This is not only about computer software evangelists, but a more general conclusion about evangelism in various aspects of real life, including computers and software. In general, I should clarify that I am not against evangelism. Actually, [...]

On January 27 2009, that was 5 days ago, Microsoft said it has begun releasing much of the source code of a project named “Web Sandbox” under the terms of the Apache License version 2. From a note on the project at Live Labs: We provide an opportunity to test the Sandbox and find out [...]

A digital certificate[1]‘s purpose of existence is to sign or encrypt other material, either the latter is an online transaction, an email message or software code. Root Certificates, their respective private key actually[1], are used by Certificate Authorities to sign and add certain extensions to other certificates they issue, thus making the latter valid for [...]

When you are unable to find a solution for a specific problem…. the solution will find you. — George Notaras 2007 Applies to non-computer related problems too.

I am nowhere near being an authority on software licensing. However, the recent release of GPLv3 with all the online discussions, all the attempts to exploit statements of the old version 2 of the license in order to achieve automatic license renewal for all the projects that were released under GPLv2 made me re-evaluate, not [...]

Some days ago, I decided to upgrade my server’s operating system, Fedora. Starting from Fedora Core 3, I have used yum to perform all the distribution upgrades, but for the seventh version of the OS I decided to go all the way re-installing it from scratch. I’ve been improving the server’s configuration files and automation [...]

Despite the third version of the GPL being released (read the GPLv3 legal code), all software, which has been published and hosted on G-Loaded.eu and is subject to the terms of the GPLv2, remains under its current license (GPLv2) until further notice. This is not because I consider the 3rd revision of the license as [...]