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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([14]December 24, 1998 LWN): people were wondering
    about what IBM was going to do...
    
      But what's really held IBM back from an official support alliance
      with Red Hat, say sources close to the company, are legal issues.
      If IBM supports Linux the way it supports other operating systems,
      it will need to tweak the operating system itself, and that could
      raise liability questions neither IBM nor its many partners want to
      deal with.
      -- [15]ZDNet
      
    ZDNet ran a [16]Top Tech Newsmaker poll. Linus Torvalds came in
    second, having been beaten, 2-to-1, by Jenni of the JenniCam.
    
    After resisting for some time, Red Hat quietly dropped a set of KDE
    RPMs into its "Rawhide" distribution. Red Hat also put an end to its
    practice of dropping updates into second and subsequent pressings of
    its CDs. Until then, one Red Hat 5.0 CD could be visibly identical to
    another, but have a different set of packages.
    
    GNOME 0.99.0 was released.
    
      Nineteen ninety-eight was the year Linux came into its own. Beloved
      of techies worldwide, passed by hand from geek to geek, Linux has
      gained an international cult following of around 7 million.
      Torvalds was on the cover of Forbes magazine; Linux software
      publishers such as Red Hat and Caldera are doing booming business;
      and Los Alamos researchers created a Linux-based supercomputer. The
      importance of the Linux movement's technical innovations is matched
      by that of its ideological commitment to making software free and
      open to everyone, and these two aspects are inextricably linked:
      Because Linux costs nothing and can be read by anyone, hackers
      everywhere can work together to make Linux better. It won't make
      them rich, but it might make them happy.
      -- [17]Time.
      
    Those looking for some amusement might want to look at [18]LWN's 1998
    year-end summary and compare it to this year's...
    
    Two years ago ([19]December 23, 1999 LWN): Eric Raymond [20]announced
    his forthcoming book, The Art of Unix Programming. The book was to
    document what makes the Unix tradition special, and was to be written
    with a great deal of help from the community. It is still a work in
    progress and the community is still invited to participate. It
    currently it is available through Chapter 4.
    
    People wondered about the 2.4 kernel...
    
      Colin Tenwick, vice president and general manager European
      operations for Red Hat, confirmed that the kernel would be released
      formally to the Linux community the same time as Windows 2000.
      -- [21]VNUnet, December 20, 1999.
      
    Needless to say, things didn't happen that way. In an attempt to get a
    guess at when the release would happen, Tummy.com announced its
    [22]When's 2.4 pool. Bill Wendling, Master Software Project Estimater,
    won the pool. On January 26, 1999 he guessed the release would be Jan
    6, 2001. The [23]pool for the 2.6 kernel is open now.
    
    Richard Stallman [24]called for a boycott of Amazon.com as a result of
    Amazon's use of software patents.
    
    Linux-Mandrake 7.0 beta was released, as was Mozilla M12.
    
    Corel's Linux distribution was due to hit the shelves any day.
    Meanwhile, the company foreshadowed the general decline in Linux
    stocks by dropping down into the low teens from its high of $43. Of
    course, the low teens would look pretty good to Corel investors these
    days...
    
    Red Hat, instead, announced a two-for-one stock split.
    
      Even if Linux does turn out to be the greatest thing since the
      graphical user interface, I sincerely doubt that people buying
      shares of VA Linux (or any of the Linux companies) at their current
      valuations will do anything but lose sleep and/or money.
      -- [25]Pat Dorsey, Morningstar.
      
    One year ago ([26]December 21, 2000 LWN): British Telecom attempted to
    enforce its patent on hypertext links by going after Prodigy. In an
    "Open Letter to Mr. Charles J. Roesslein, CEO, Prodigy" Don Marti
    wrote:
    
      When clueless companies start throwing "intellectual property"
      claims around to suppress competitors or to extract money from
      innovators who have left them in the dust, that's a threat to our
      economy and, when they attack free communication protocols, it's a
      threat to our freedom. In the long run, I hope that this case will
      make you as dedicated a software patent reform advocate as I am.
      But for now, don't give the bastards an inch and you'll get all the
      help you need.
      -- [27]LinuxJournal.
      
    The BT/Prodigy case will go to trial early in 2002.
    
    There were rumors that Corel might sell its Linux business.
    
      The dollar value of the deal was not known. But one source said
      Corel would receive $5 million in cash for its Linux arm and retain
      20 percent rights to the new [Linux Global Partners] LGP-owned
      Linux company.
      -- [28]News.com.
      
    The real deal was still eight months away, but it involve LGP.
    
      You people just don't get it, do you? All Linux applications run on
      Solaris, which is our implementation of Linux.
      -- [29]Sun CEO Scott McNealy, ZDNet
      
    Maybe it just depends on your definition of Linux.
    
    In this [30]State of the Woody message from Debian developer Anthony
    Towns wrote:
    
      It's been roughly four months since potato got released, which
      means woody's been in existance for eleven months, and that we
      probably want to think about freezing and releasing it in a few
      more months.
      
    Depending on how you define "a few", Woody could be considered right
    on track.
    
    Section Editor: [31]Rebecca Sobol.
    December 20, 2001
    
    LWN Linux Timelines
    [32]1998 In Review
    [33]1999 In Review
    [34]2000 In Review
    [35]2001 In Review
    
    
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