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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   21 Jun 2001  17:12:24
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]June 25, 1998 LWN): Alan Cox [16]had a few words
    to say on U.S. patent laws:
    
      There are probably now in excess of a million so called 'software
      patents' cripping US industry. Because the US patent system
      basically runs without any checking of any kind US companies file
      patents on anything that so much as compiles in the hope they can
      use it to monopolise a field and drive competitors bankrupt.
      
    Software patent problems are not limited the United States. Later in
    this page we will see an attempt to battle them and a specific
    example.
    
    ZDNet's Jesse Berst [17]wrote:
    
      Would you like to see the rug pulled out from under Microsoft?
      Here's how it could happen. IBM ships and supports Linux. Oracle
      does Linux versions of all its products. A consortium of top
      vendors picks a standard Linux interface and creates a
      compatibility logo.
      
    When IBM announced plans to bundle and support Apache during the same
    week, it seemed like the corners of the rug had been tugged. These
    days Linux has IBM support and Oracle support. If you allow for a
    choice of two desktops as a standard interface then Linux has that
    too. And the compatibility logo? One should certainly be part of the
    imminent Linux Standard Base 1.0 release...
    
    Debian 2.0 [18]went into beta.
    
    Two years ago ([19]June 24, 1999 LWN): SuSE's financial results
    through March 31, 1999 showed revenues just under $10 million with 130
    employees. In comparison, Red Hat's recent SEC filing reported just
    under $11 million and 127 employees. The common perception that Red
    Hat was the biggest distributor was shattered. SuSE was just as big.
    Unfortunately, SuSE does not release its numbers, so there is no easy
    way to determine the relative sizes of the two companies now.
    
    Eric Raymond spoke at Microsoft.
    
    Matt Michie wrote [20]an editorial titled "Microsoft and the Art of
    War." It's tries to predict how Microsoft might respond to Linux and
    free software in general.
    
      Just when Microsoft thought that Unix was finally dead and buried,
      all these free *NIX clones spring into popularity over the
      Internet. Standard MS stratagems are enacted and FUD (Fear
      Uncertainty Doubt) was spread through their standard trade press
      channels....
      
      Microsoft then moved on to the next phase. We're all now familiar
      with the so called Mindcraft Fiasco. ...
      
    Microsoft seems to be moving backwards in that they are once again
    attempting to spread FUD. Are more benchmark tests coming?
    
    Ten European industry leaders, including Linus Torvalds, [21]raised
    concerns about software patents.
    
    The GNU COBOL project was born after Rildo Pragana released the source
    code for an old COBOL compiler he had created for MSDOS. The project,
    now [22]TinyCOBOL, is still working.
    
    Bob Metcalfe [23]predicted the death of Linux and "The Open Sores
    Movement".
    
      Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open
      Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. And Linux is
      30-year-old technology. The Open Source Movement reminds me of
      communism. Richard Stallman's Marx rants about the evils of the
      profit motive and multinational corporations. Linus Torvalds' Lenin
      laughs about world domination.
      
    This [24]UserFriendly cartoon for June 10, 2001 proves that a good
    quote never dies.
    
    One year ago ([25]June 22, 2000 LWN):
    Compaq's Jim Gettys [26]announced the creation of [27]Handhelds.org.
    Compaq continues to support the development of handheld devices. See
    [28]this week's Commerce page. [Handheld]
    
    The kernel hackers were busily trying to fix the 2.4 virtual memory
    subsystem. A year later...they're still trying...
    
    The Direct Access File System (DAFS) was announced this week. [29]DAFS
    Collaborative web site. The DAFS Collaborative just [30]demonstrated
    its first prototype this week.
    
    LynuxWorks released BlueCat Linux 2.0. Also released were OpenBSD 2.7,
    Immunix 6.2, and SuSE 7.1 beta 1.
    
    Red Hat's [31]first quarter results showed revenues of $16 million
    with a $2.5 million loss. One year later, revenue is up substantially,
    and the loss is gone.
    
    Jesse Berst [32]wrote:
    
      Penguins throw down your arms. The Linux battle for the desktop is
      a fruitless waste of time....
      
      Message to the Linux counterculture: Expecting consumers to abandon
      the de facto Windows standard to go to Linux is like asking them to
      return to DOS. It's not going to happen. But Linux can succeed if
      it does two things successfully: gets big (becomes a popular choice
      for large enterprises) and gets small (becomes embedded OS of
      choice for small devices).
      
    These days Linux is a popular choice for large enterprises and popular
    in the embedded space too. The "battle for the desktop" doesn't seem
    quite so "fruitless" anymore either. It's no wonder Microsoft is
    nervous.
    
    British Telecom claimed to own a patent on hyperlinks.
    
    GnuCash 1.4 was [33]released. Complaints about library dependencies
    were relatively rare that time around.
    June 21, 2001
    
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   22. http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/
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   38. http://www.eklektix.com/
   39. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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