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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   10 May 2001  17:11:40
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]May 14, 1998 LWN): How many of you remember the
    Wang lawsuit, alleging that Netscape had violated its Videotex patents
    with its web browser? On May 6, 1998 [16]that lawsuit was dismissed.
    Netscape's lawyers credited people on the net with having sent in much
    useful information that lead to the dismissal of the suit.
    
    The [17]Association Francophone des Utilsateurs de Linux et des
    Logiciels Libres was founded to promote free software in the
    French-speaking world. In the last three years it has been a powerful
    force behind free software in France. Happy Birthday!
    
    Corel made a much-hyped "we support open source" announcement, which
    essentially boiled down to the company porting all of its applications
    to Linux.
    
    Dell [18]claimed that none of their customers wanted Linux in this
    ZDNet article. LWN received an [19]open letter from Jim Dennis to Dell
    telling them that their customers were already using Linux on Dell
    computers. Dell still isn't completely convinced. To this day the main
    Dell site does not mention Linux and won't even point you to the
    [20]Dell Linux site.
    
    Two years ago ([21]May 13, 1999 LWN): Ken Thompson, perhaps best known
    as the co-author of Unix, was [22]interviewed by IEEE Computer. His
    comments about Linux were somewhat negative.
    
      My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is
      quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is
      worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're
      using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use
      Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a
      long way to go.
      
    Eric Raymond talked to Ken about his "anti-Linux" stance and provided
    LWN with [23]summary of the conversation, which was much less negative
    than the original statement.
    
      The best news, I guess, is that Ken says he didn't intend to write
      off Linux itself as simply an anti-Microsoft backlash; what he was
      trying to say was that he believes the recent popularity of Linux
      in the press is an anything-but-Microsoft phenomenon. He adds ``i
      very much appreciate the chance to look at available code when i am
      faced with the task of interfacing to some nightmare piece of
      hardware'' and that ``i think the open software movement (and linux
      in particular) is laudable.''
      
    Of course Linux is still a work in progress, and having someone like
    Ken Thompson point out flakiness just gives developers another
    challenge. Those areas where Ken saw flaky code two years ago, we see
    Linux flourishing today.
    
    Linus [24]released kernel 2.3.0, beginning the new development series.
    
    The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals [25]decided that the U.S.
    Government's Crypto export regulations were in violation of the first
    amendment. Source code is speech, and the government can not regulate
    it, they said. While the decision was only binding in a few western
    states, it was an important step in allowing the free flow of
    cryptographic information that we enjoy today.
    
    [26]Open Season was an article appearing in Wired about free software.
    
      Never mind that some of these open-source-come-latelies may be
      trying to cover up for some misbegotten product that would never
      have had a prayer in the marketplace, or that they may well be
      aiming to exploit open-source resources without giving anything
      back in return. Those two little words - open source - have become
      a magical incantation, like portal in 1998 or push in 1997. Just
      whisper them and all will be yours: media attention, consumer
      interest, and, of course, venture capital.
      
    Of course these days venture capital is pretty hard to come by,
    regardless of magical incantation. Nonetheless several open source
    companies are profitable. See [27]this week's front page.
    
    One year ago ([28]May 11, 2000 LWN): Security was very much in the
    news. Microsoft users were contending with the "ILOVEYOU" virus/worm
    that was turned loose on the net by somebody with a strange idea of
    fun. Nicholas Petreley [29]wrote:
    
      Put bluntly, most developers in the Linux community would not be
      stupid enough to create a program as insecure and dangerous as
      Outlook. And if anyone were foolish enough to do so in the open
      source community, such a design would not be likely to survive the
      peer review it would receive.
      
    True enough, but LWN warned Linux users not to gloat. It is true that
    we have little enough to worry about with viruses like "ILOVEYOU", but
    this was also the week that [30]apache.org was cracked and the folks
    at Digital Creations found an [31]ugly problem with redirects. The
    Apache hack turned out to be an exploit of a badly configured
    configuration file, easy enough to document and fix. The redirect
    problem is not that hard to fix either, but it still exists on many
    sites and has been occasionally exploited.
    
    From time to time Microsoft advocates like to point out that with open
    source software there is no one that you can sue when bad things
    happen. Of course, even with proprietary software there are no
    guarantees. Although millions of people were affected by "ILOVEYOU",
    with damages estimated in the billions of dollars, Microsoft
    disclaimed any responsibility. Phil Agre [32]wrote that "Microsoft
    shouldn't be broken up. It should be shut down."
    
    Red Hat gave up its portal ambitions, laying off most of the [33]Wide
    Open News staff and ceasing original writing there. Instead, Red Hat
    went into the venture capital business. "Red Hat Ventures" would make
    investments of $500,000 to $2 million in new, open source-related
    companies, they announced. Investments had already been made in
    Sendmail, Inc., Rackspace.com, and e-smith.
    
    The Linux Standard Base (LSB) and Linux Internationalization
    Initiative (LI18NUX) joined forces to become the [34]Free Standards
    Group. An announcement about the 0.9 release from the Free Standards
    Base is covered on [35]this week's development page.
    
    May 10, 2001
    
    
    
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