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 This week in Linux history
 
    Six years ago Red Hat Software and Pacific Hi-Tech (now known as
    Turbolinux) [15]announced the co-production of the "Official Red Hat
    Linux CD Rom" (version 1.1).
    
    Five years ago Caldera [16]announced the acquisition of DR-DOS, and
    the filing of its antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
    
    Mark Bolzern, of LinuxMall fame, got [17]the first letter from William
    R. Della Croche, the clever guy who thought he would register the
    Linux trademark and start hitting up Linux companies for payments.
    That, of course, didn't last very long...
    
    Three years ago ([18]August 6, 1998): LWN commented on the relative
    lack of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) attacks against Linux, and
    predicted that there would be more such in the future. This year
    Microsoft has obliged with its attacks on open source.
    
    Eric Raymond [19]celebrated the first six months of the "open source"
    term.
    
      In fact, we've come an astonishingly long way in a short time. Six
      months ago `free software' was barely a blip on the radar screens
      of the computer trade press and the corporate world -- and what
      they thought they knew, they didn't like. Today, `open source' is a
      hot topic not just in the trade press but in the most influential
      of the business-news magazines that shape corporate thinking.
      
    The development kernel was 2.1.114; work continued on the 2.0.36
    stable release. Much energy went into a vast flamewar over whether the
    devfs patch should go into the 2.2 kernel; in the end it didn't
    happen, but it will be there in 2.4. The beer-drinking penguin logo
    was removed from the development series.
    
    Two years ago ([20]August 5, 1999 LWN): SGI jumped into Linux with
    both feet, announcing a new Linux-based server system. The company
    also let it slip that Irix would not be ported to the Intel
    architecture.
    
    Eric Raymond [21]addressed the question of whether free software can
    be original:
    
      But there is a more fundamental error in the implicit assumption
      that the cathedral model (or the bazaar model, or any other kind of
      management structure) can somehow make innovation happen reliably.
      This is nonsense. Gangs don't have breakthrough insights -- even
      volunteer groups of bazaar anarchists are usually incapable of
      genuine originality, let alone corporate committees of people with
      a survival stake in some status quo ante. Insight comes from
      individuals.
      
    The development kernel release was 2.3.12. Linus Torvalds
    [22]announced that the 2.3 kernel would go into feature freeze "in
    about two weeks." The 2.3 feature freeze was still months away in
    reality.
    
    There was a rumor that VA Linux might file for an IPO.
    
    ZDNet [23]reported on Time magazine's top 100 important people of the
    century list. Bill Gates was number 16. Linus Torvalds ranked number
    15 and also got his picture on the cover of Time.
    
    One year ago ([24]August 3, 2000 LWN): The FUD was flying this week.
    Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said [25]Linux is communism in The Register.
    Michael Swaine questioned the originality of open source in this
    [26]WebReview article. Dave Winer at Userland predicted [27]the death
    of the software industry partly blaming open source. There was even an
    article on [28]ZDNet claiming that security holes should be hidden to
    keep crackers from exploiting them. Of course holes that are not made
    public tend not to get fixed...
    
    The current development kernel release was 2.4.0-test5. Linus [29]sent
    out an announcement for this release, which contained lots of changes.
    
    Grant Taylor launched [30]LinuxPrinting.org, still a good resource for
    information about printing under Linux.
    
    Caldera Systems and SCO [31]announced a merger.
    
    Ready for prime time? IBM was selling its S/390 with Linux. Computer
    Associates announced "a comprehensive suite of eBusiness management
    software" available for Linux on S/390.
    
    [32]Copyleft was added as a defendant in the DVD suit as a result of
    their selling T-shirts with the DeCSS code on the back. Copyleft
    founder Steve Blood was quoted in this [33]ZDNet article.
    
      "We've been marketing this since last January," Blood said. "It
      seems a bit late." According to the subpoena he received Monday,
      the DVD CCA had trouble locating him, despite the fact that the
      organization's Web site is easy to find.
      
    Section Editor: [34]Rebecca Sobol.
    August 2, 2001
    
    LWN Linux Timelines
    [35]1998 In Review
    [36]1999 In Review
    [37]2000 In Review
    
    
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    Linux (R) is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
 
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   39. http://www.eklektix.com/
   40. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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