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 This week in Linux history
 
    Six years ago: "bob@acc-corp.com," otherwise known as Bob Young at Red
    Hat's precursor company, [15]announced the Linux events at New York's
    Unix Expo; included was a panel with Matt Welsh, Michael K. Johnson,
    Eric Troan, and Marc Ewing. (For those who are interested,
    "acc-corp.com" is now owned by American Concrete Cutting
    Corporation...)
    
    Three years ago ([16]September 10, 1998 LWN): industry journalists
    complained in a big way about being flamed by Linux zealots - a
    problem that still comes back to haunt the community at times.
    
    Prediction of the week:
    
      Linux will never go mainstream. But it will have a powerful
      influence nonetheless.
      -- [17]Jesse Berst, ZDNet.
      
    Perhaps it depends on your definition of "mainstream"...
    
    The development kernel was 2.1.121. A fair amount of controversy
    surrounded the addition of the QNX filesystem, since the kernel was
    alleged to be in a feature freeze at the time.
    
    Oracle announced its first set of marketing partnerships, with Red
    Hat, VA Research (now VA Linux), Pacific HiTech (now TurboLinux) and
    S.u.S.E. (now SuSE).
    
    Dell, it was revealed, had been selling Linux-installed systems to a
    few big customers for a year, despite its public denials that there
    was even interest in such systems.
    
    Two years ago ([18]September 9, 1999 LWN): Licensing problems turned
    up with some of the code distributed with Bind 8.2, a crucial piece of
    network infrastructure. In the end, all was worked out, but it showed
    the kind of difficulties that licensing conflicts can cause.
    
    SCO distributed a brochure in northern Europe:
    
      Linux at this moment can be considered more a play thing for IT
      students rather than a serious operating system in which to place
      the functioning, security and future of a business. Because Linux
      is basically a free-for-all it means that no individual
      person/company is accountable should anything go wrong, plus there
      is no way to predict which way Linux will evolve
      
    They certainly failed to predict how things would evolve...
    
    Quote of the week:
    
      Any time you're sort of slacking off or saying you're thinking of
      taking a day off our president says, 'You know, I'll bet Bill Gates
      is working today.'
      [19]Marc Ewing on Red Hat's relaxed corporate culture.
      
    Ah, the good old days:
    
      Red Hat's stock continued its climb today, soaring by nearly 15
      points to reach 122.8125 in mid-morning trading, making Red Hat
      founder and chief technical officer Marc Ewing and CEO Robert Young
      billionaires as well, at least on paper
      -- [20]News.com.
      
    The latest, greatest NFS patches were withheld from the 2.2.12 (and
    later) stable kernel release, due to fears that they would destabilize
    things.
    
    Caldera 2.3 was launched this week. MandrakeSoft [21]announced the
    opening of its Chinese offices, in cooperation with a little-known (at
    the time) company called LinuxOne. That partnership did not last long.
    Red Hat, meanwhile, [22]announced "Lorax", the beta version of its 6.1
    release.
    
    One year ago ([23]September 7, 2000 LWN): Trolltech announced that Qt
    2.2 would be released under the GPL and QPL giving developers a choice
    of license. This was a move that should have brought an end to more
    than two years of controversy centered around the Qt license. However
    some people are never satisfied. Richard Stallman felt that the legal
    status of KDE remained clouded.
    
      Qt 2.2 provides the basis to solve this secondary problem, but a
      certain amount of cleaning up will be needed to fix it thoroughly.
      Misusing a GPL-covered program permanently forfeits the right to
      distribute the code at all. Such situations have occurred in KDE,
      and now they ought to be cleaned up.
      -- [24]Stallman on Qt, the GPL, KDE, and GNOME - LinuxToday.
      
    A company called Digital Convergence came up with an interesting idea.
    They would give away a cheap barcode reader (called the ":CueCat") and
    some (Windows) software. People could plug the reader into their
    computer, then use it to read a special code printed with
    advertisements and such. Naturally Linux hackers starting creating
    drivers for the :CueCat -- something Digital Convergence didn't like.
    See, in the original software each use of the :CueCat would send in
    some personal information, along with the serial number of the device.
    Every code scanned would get tied together with your information,
    building a nice little profile. The Linux drivers circumvented that
    profile building. The FBM site put together [25]this page documenting
    it all, from the first release of :CueCat to the demise of Digital
    Convergence.
    
    The first public [26]release of the TUX web server happened.
    
    Perl 5.7.0 was [27]released, as were [28]Python 1.6 and [29]Python 2.0
    beta 1.
    
    A company called "iRobot" announced a new product: the "iRobot-LE", a
    Linux-powered robot aimed at household use. It could be monitored and
    controlled from anywhere on the net via a web browser. It climbed
    stairs, and had sonar and infrared systems for avoiding obstacles.
    Suggested uses include monitoring the babysitter, home security, and
    so on. [30]LWN editors met iRobot at COMDEX.
    
    Section Editor: [31]Rebecca Sobol.
    September 6, 2001
    
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