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 This week in Linux history
 
    Five years ago: the second "NCSU Linux Expo" was [15]announced. There
    were no specific speakers named, and attendance cost all of two
    dollars.
    
    Also [16]announced was Red Hat 3.0.3. It included a bleeding-edge
    1.3.57 kernel, RPM 2.0, and a number of other goodies.
    
    Three years ago ([17]March 19, 1998 LWN): Bruce Perens [18]resigned as
    the leader of the Debian Project. Said Bruce:
    
      I'm sorry it had to be this way, but I feel that my mission to
      bring free software to the masses really isn't compatible with
      Debian any longer, and that I should be working with one of the
      more mainstream Linux distributions.
      
    He never did end up working with a "more mainstream" distribution,
    though...
    
    Debian, meanwhile, [19]went into code freeze for its 2.0 release.
    
    Eric Allman announced the creation of Sendmail, Inc., which would seek
    to make money from the sendmail system.
    
    The GIMP 1.0 release was delayed, not for the last time.
    
    Two years ago ([20]March 18, 1999 LWN): Apple announced that parts of
    its upcoming OSX would be released under an open source license. Those
    parts, of course, were mostly the BSD core, which were already
    available under a free license. Apple, however, created its own "Apple
    Public Source License," which, after some tweaks, got the Open Source
    Initiative's seal of approval as "open source." Bruce Perens
    immediately objected, and posted [21]a complaint, coauthored by
    Wichert Akkerman, and Ian Jackson. Richard Stallman [22]also
    complained. The objections mostly centered around a notification
    requirement for changes, and a clause allowing Apple to revoke the
    license at any time.
    
    The Open Source Initiative responded with [23]a note of its own:
    
      The OSI stands behind its endorsement, applauds Apple's vision, and
      confidently expects the APSL terms will serve as a model for the
      open-sourcing of other Apple technologies -- perhaps, indeed, for
      the open-sourcing of operating systems from other computer systems
      manufacturers now that Apple has taken the first groundbreaking
      step.
      
    The Apple issue eventually faded away - and the APSL certainly has not
    served as a model for too many other releases. But this event perhaps
    marks the beginning of a new phase in the open disagreement between
    the "open source" and "free software" camps - things only got uglier
    from there.
    
      Raymond's cozy relationship with big business has caused a rift
      with Perens, who has been vocal in his criticism of things he sees
      as detrimental to the philosophy of the free software movement,
      championed by such people as Richard Stallman of the Free Software
      Foundation.
      
      In February, Perens stepped down from his position on the board of
      the Open Software Initiative, a group that he founded with Raymond.
      
      Press reports attributed the division to an argument in which
      Perens referred to book publisher Tim O'Reilly -- an advocate for
      open-source software -- as "one of the leading parasites of the
      free software community."
      -- [24]Wired News.
      
    Linux-Mandrake [25]merged with the BeroLinux project. Conectiva Linux
    3.0 was released.
    
    Linux Expo was [26]putting out announcements again. The fifth (and
    last) Linux Expo featured Red Hat's Bob Young as the keynote speaker.
    
    One year ago ([27]March 16, 2000 LWN): version 1.1 of the GNU Free
    Documentation License (FDL) was released. One year later, there does
    not appear to have been a great deal of documentation released under
    this license.
    
    XFree86 4.0 was released, finally. This release, too, has taken a long
    time to work its way into widespread use - but it's getting there.
    
    Trustix Secure Linux 1.0 was [28]released, as was FreeBSD 4.0 and ROCK
    Linux 1.3.8. The first alpha release of Apache 2.0 was made available;
    one year later, the release is called 2.0.14 - but it's still an alpha
    release.
    
    Linus [29]announced another pre-2.4 code freeze. This one, too, would
    prove rather soft, and the real 2.4 release was a good nine months
    away, still.
    
    Simson Garfinkel [30]predicted a flood of Linux viruses:
    
      No, what's stopped the spread of viruses on the Linux platform
      isn't technology, but the lack of interest from the virus writers.
      Why write a Linux virus when the same skills will let you bring up
      a new web-site and become a millionaire in just a few weeks? But if
      the economy goes south, we're likely to see a suddenly bloom of
      viruses from out-of-work overachievers.
      
    If he's right, that virus flood should show up any day now....
    March 15, 2001
    
    
    
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