José Alonso Cárdenas Marquez se ha convertido desde hace unos días en el primer desarrollador peruano del Proyecto FreeBSD, un sistema operativo de software libre basado en UNIX, luego de haber obtenido acceso de escritura al repositorio principal de «Ports» del proyecto FreeBSD.

Alejandro Toledo, president of Peru, signed legislation this week that allows public institutions to consider adopting open-source software, another step forward for the open-software movement. The legislation, which Peru's Congress approved in September, allows government agencies and schools to choose between proprietary software from companies like Microsoft or Oracle, as well as open-source alternatives.