Some folks in Brazil are trying an interesting experiment by releasing an open source, online book on the topic of reuse in software engineering. You can download the PDF of the book for free.

San Francisco CCP has made it easy for people to become a supporting member online with their credit card, PayPal, etc. You can become a member even for just $10 a month. northxsouth is very proud to support community networks like SFCCP and we urge everybody to do whatever they can to increase the SFCCP membership. If you believe in old school internet values of openness, democratic expression, freedom of speech and non-commercialism, they have an online sign-up page so you can become a member right now :)

The computers of the future — inexpensive, produced with open source methodologies and led by this growing bloc of economic allies. For $400, you get a nice desktop running Linux.