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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   15 Nov 2001  17:12:40
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Six years ago Red Hat Linux 2.1 was released.
    
    Three years ago ([14]November 19, 1998 LWN): Trolltech announced that
    the Qt library would be released under an open source license. That
    license, the QPL, was truly open source, but remained controversial
    anyway. The Qt licensing issue didn't really die down until the
    library was relicensed under the GPL in 2000.
    
    Bruce Perens [15]warned about the danger of trojan horse software.
    Three years later, there have been very few trojan incidents, but the
    danger is probably more real than ever.
    
    Stable kernel 2.0.36 was [16]released with the first known application
    of "holy penguin pee." According to Linus:
    
      This, btw, is not something I would suggest you do in your living
      room. Getting a penguin to pee on demand is _messy_. We're talking
      yellow spots on the walls, on the ceiling, yea verily even behind
      the fridge. However. I would also advice against doing this outside
      - it may be a lot easier to clean up, but you're likely to get
      reported and arrested for public lewdness. Never mind that you had
      a perfectly good explanation for it all.
      
    Digital Creations released the source for their Principia product.
    Principia, of course, became Zope, arguably the first big Python
    "killer app".
    
    The Linux Journal Editor's Choice Awards went out...the product of the
    year was Netscape Communicator, the "most desired port" Quark Xpress,
    and the best new hardware was the Corel Netwinder. Some awards just
    don't stand the test of time...
    
    Slackware 3.6 was released. Both Red Hat and SuSE announced support
    programs for their distributions. Red Hat hired Matthew Szulik to be
    the company president.
    
    VA Research (now VA Linux Systems) received a venture investment from
    Sequoia Capital, and Netscape purchased "NewHoo," which has since
    become the [17]Open Directory Project.
    
    FUD of the week:
    
      Linux may be a great way for computer-literate individuals to get
      under the hoods of their computers for little cost, but it's
      nothing more than a convenient form of protest and public relations
      for the major software vendors that plan to support it. If nothing
      else, the Linux community has an influence beyond its numbers, and
      getting on its good side might help sales elsewhere. As long as
      Linux remains a religion of freeware fanatics, Microsoft (and other
      NOS vendors) have nothing to worry about.
      -- [18]Michael Surkan, ZDNet.
      
    Two years ago ([19]November 18, 1999 LWN): The first Linux Business
    Expo happened as part of Comdex in Las Vegas. The Linux Professional
    Institute completed its first certification exam, finally.
    
    SuSE 6.3 was announced - though it was not due to hit the net until
    December. Mozilla M11 was released.
    
    Rumors were circulating of a new company to be formed by GNOME hackers
    Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman. Red Hat's purchase of Cygnus
    Solutions was confirmed. VA Linux Systems decreed that its IPO would
    happen at $11-13 per share - rather short of the $30 that it
    eventually went out at (but far higher than today's price).
    
    Scary thought of the week:
    
      I don't think people realize just how close we came to a
      Microsoft-dominated Web. If Microsoft, having trounced Netscape,
      hadn't been surprised by the unexpected strength of Apache, Perl,
      FreeBSD and Linux, I can easily imagine a squeeze play on Web
      protocols and standards, which would have allowed Microsoft to
      dictate terms to the Web developers who are currently inventing the
      next generation of computer applications.
      -- [20]Tim O'Reilly in Salon.
      
    [21]Advogato hit the net.
    
    One year ago ([22]November 16, 2000 LWN): The [23]KDE League announced
    its existence. Meanwhile, the [24]GNOME Foundation released the
    preliminary results for the first board of directors.
    
    Digital Creations (now Zope Corporation) hinted at how successful free
    software companies might look and operate in the near future. They
    secured a $12 million funding round at a time when venture capital was
    scarce.
    
    MandrakeSoft hired Bastille Linux security guru Jay Beale as Security
    Group Director. A position he has retained.
    
    IBM released the source for OpenAFS (a version of the Andrew File
    System) under its "IPL" license. IBM also released the first
    "reference implementation" of its Enterprise Volume Management System
    (under the terms of the GPL).
    
    Netscape 6 launched.
    
      A scan through open source chat rooms such as Slashdot.org reveals
      that most users who tested the software say it is still full of
      kinks and bugs and are already looking forward to the release of
      Netscape 6.1.
      -- [25]Upside.
      
    "... barriers to the adoption of open source software persist", wrote
    Michelle Head at [26]LinuxNews.com.
    
      The health care industry would seem to present the perfect
      challenge for open source design: one would think that an
      organization requiring a stable, secure operating system able to
      manage a number of different types of data with complete
      integration and the kind of ease-of-use most physicians need would
      have open source written all over it. But the health care
      industry's information technology status remains largely in the
      Dark Ages--even as healthcare's growing complexity cries out for
      cutting-edge technology solutions.
      
    One year later one burning topic at the recent [27]National Summit on
    Future of eHealth Application Development was:
    
      What is the role for standards, open source software, or public
      domain approaches to eHealth development? What changes (e.g.,
      structural changes, incentives, funding) are needed to jumpstart
      and sustain such approaches?
      
    Progress, perhaps.
    
    Section Editor: [28]Rebecca Sobol.
    November 15, 2001
    
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