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 This week in Linux history
 
    Five years ago: the Free Software Foundation, feeling left out of
    Linux, [15]decided to call it "Lignux" instead. That one did not
    stick, however...
    
    Four years ago: Alan Cox [16]withdrew as the Linux CERT contact
    person:
    
      I no longer have any faith in CERT nor believe it is the right way
      to handle the lamentably bad state of computer security today. It
      muddles along like some kind of comic book 3rd world security
      agency trying to hide the truth - the only reason we haven't had
      major computer security catastrophes on the internet is because
      nobody has lit the fuse, not because we have security.
      
    It's not clear that the situation has improved a whole lot since
    then...
    
    Three years ago ([17]June 6, 1998 LWN): The Open Group stated that it
    would be willing to consider bending some of its rules in order to
    award its "Unix98" certification to Linux. The proprietary Unix
    vendors, it seems, had written off the low-end server market, and
    figured that they might as well help Linux fight in that arena. The
    certification never materialized, but that does not appear to have
    slowed down Linux much.
    
    [18]Version 0.8 of the proposed Debian Constitution was released.
    
    Two years ago ([19]June 3, 1999 LWN): The unpleasant "shrink-wrap
    software law" known as UCC-2B was reincarnated as UCITA. Two years
    later, UCITA remains an active proposal, though its progress seems to
    have stalled.
    
    Red Hat Linux 7.0 upset many customers with its new, higher price. Red
    Hat answered the criticism by offering "Red Hat Core," which was
    offered at the older price ($40). People were not exactly encouraged
    to buy it, though:
    
      You have been writing code for years and can recompile the kernel
      in your sleep....You know what you're doing and you know how it all
      works. In fact, you're one of the "gurus" who is most likely
      helping all your friends get into Linux. You don't need a floppy;
      you don't need help in getting started, and you don't need support.
      
    "Red Hat Core" was also not available through resellers; it had to be
    bought directly from Red Hat. Two years later, Red Hat no longer
    follows this strategy; Red Hat Linux 7.1 is available for $40, or for
    slightly less from the usual resellers.
    
    Linux IPOs were still in the future, but people were beginning to
    worry:
    
      One factor to consider as VA ponders going public is compensating
      the myriad programmers who have contributed to Linux over the
      years.... If a company such as VA or Red Hat went public and made a
      lot of money off Linux, "What does that mean for all those people
      who've done a lot of work and don't necessarily" make money out of
      it? Will they still want to contribute to Linux? "That's one of the
      issues we're struggling with," [Larry] Augustin said.
      [20]News.com.
      
    Publicly-held Linux companies may have quite a few disgruntled
    stockholders, but their public nature does not seem to have created
    too many difficulties with developers.
    
    Linux-Mandrake 6.0 was [21]released.
    
    One year ago [22]June 1, 2000 LWN. The LWN this week in history
    section made its first appearance in the now defunct back page.
    
    Richard Stallman stated that free software was unimportant for
    embedded systems:
    
      I'm less concerned with what happens with embedded systems than I
      am with real computers. The real reason for this is the moral
      issues about software freedom are much more significant for
      computers that users see as a computer. And so I'm not really
      concerned with what's running inside my microwave oven.
      
    The original article, which ran on GnuLinux.com, appears to be no
    longer available. RMS has since expressed more concern about closed
    embedded systems.
    
    Linus [23]released kernel 2.4.0-test1, just before leaving town for a
    few weeks. "It's not a real 2.4.0 release, but we should be getting
    closer." Not all that much closer - 2.4.0 was still several months
    away.
    
    The Python development group, headed up by Guido van Rossum, moved to
    BeOpen. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but this arrangement
    didn't last all that long.
    
    Michael Tiemann [24]talked about the apparent lack of progress with
    the Linux Standard Base:
    
      In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, one of the paradoxes presented
      is that if people had proof of God, their belief would be
      fact-based instead of faith-based, and the loss of faith would
      cause God to cease to exist. The way Linux standards work, you've
      got to believe. If people believe, then standards are widely
      accepted.
      
    One can only hope that the imminent arrival of LSB 1.0 does not bring
    about this sort of paradox...
    May 31, 2001
    
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