I filmen TPB AFK berättade nyligen en av personerna bakom sajten hur han valde att lägga sajten under Piratpartiet för att ge den politisk immunitet. En rättprocess skulle kunna gynna Piratpartiet när det handlar om uppmärksamhet inför nästa års val. Men det skrämmer inte Rättighetsalliansens jurist Sara Lindbäck.

Kubuntu will have a new sponsor in Blue Systems from the 12.10 cycle starting in May. Kubuntu is a community led project to create a KDE flavour as part of Ubuntu. Our sponsor since it started has been Canonical who are now moving to focus on their Unity flavour. We would like to thank Canonical for this kind support and wish the best success for the Unity flavour (also called Ubuntu).

While Linux is running our phones, friend requests, tweets, financial trades, ATMs and more, most of us don't know how it's actually built. This short video takes you inside the process by which the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing is organized. Based on the annual report "Who Writes Linux," this is a powerful and inspiring story of how Linux has become a community-driven phenomenon.

Last year, Linux celebrated its 20th anniversary. The kernel that Linus Torvalds started as a hobby project helped the Internet bloom, challenged proprietary operating system dominance, and powers hundreds of millions of devices. From hacker toys like the dirt-cheap Raspberry Pi to most of the Top 500 Supercomputers, Linux dominates the computing industry. But it wouldn't have been possible without GCC, which turns 25 today.

Before Torvalds started hacking away on Linux, Richard Stallman and started the GNU (GNU's Not UNIX) project and part of that was the GNU C Compiler (GCC). Eventually that became the GNU Compiler Collection (also GCC) but we're getting a little ahead of the story.

Krönika: "Det största problemet med Acta är alla rykten som uppstått samtidigt som ingen verkar ha läst själva avtalet", skriver Åsa Schwarz.

I början av februari sålde butiker i Stockholm slut på Guy Fawkes-masker. Anledningen var demonstrationerna mot Acta-avtalet som senare ägde rum på Sergels torg. Jag förstår upprördheten över ett avtal som förhandlats fram bakom slutna dörrar efter att USA krävt sekretess. Det blir inte bättre av att det som främst läckt från förhandlingarna är delar som numera är strukna, som till exempel att illegala fildelare ska stängas av från nätet.

Egentligen skiljer sig avtalet inte nämnvärt från svensk lagstiftning. Det största problemet med Acta är alla rykten som uppstått samtidigt som ingen verkar ha läst själva avtalet (finns på regeringens hemsida). Många blandar ihop handelsavtalet Acta med de amerikanska lagförslagen Sopa och Pipa. Syftet med Acta är att få gemensamma regler mellan länder om hur intrång i upphovsrätt, patent och varumärken ska hanteras.
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Thoughts about Kubuntu's Status, Canonical, and your distribution's sponsors

Yesterday I woke up to the news that Canonical are no longer going to fund Riddell to work on Kubuntu. I've trying to figure out what that means for KDE and for community Linux generally.
Disclaimer: I work in the same role as Jonathan at SUSE, a competing Linux company that sponsors the openSUSE project. This is my personal opinion, not that of the openSUSE Board or SUSE Linux GmbH.
I'm sad for Jonathan personally. He has put a lot of his lifeblood into Kubuntu over the years, at no little cost to himself, and to be pulled off one's favourite project hurts. The same thing could happen to me if the powers that be decide, so I can easily empathise with him.
In the bigger picture, I have to say that this doesn't surprise me at all. For Canonical, Kubuntu fulfilled its purpose a few years ago already. Kubuntu, and the other official Ubuntu derivatives, have always been a spoiler move to tie up community contributors who believed in the early community-centric image of Ubuntu, but who didn't agree with the main Ubuntu's direction. Otherwise, there was the risk that Ubuntu design decisions would polarize the Linux community and send people towards Ubuntu's competitors. With the derivatives, they are safely occupied under the big tent of the Ubuntu brand.

RT (Russia Today) yesterday conducted an interview with Richard M Stallman, the founder of Free Software Foundation and the writer of the world's most advance license GNU GPL. RT asked readers to ask questions and then they would pick questions for RMS.

We asked two questions on RT's Facebook page and both those questions were presented to RMS.

Muktware: Do you think USA is becoming hostile to innovation and competition as the companies like Apple and Microsoft are gaming the system?
RMS: I have to point out that innovation is not my highest value. Human rights are my highest values. So I don't to get into the dialogue that treats innovation as a primary goal.