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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]April 30, 1998 LWN): People began to [16]spread
    the word about proposed changes to the Uniform Commercial Code. This
    effort eventually evolved into the proposed law known as UCITA, which
    remains a threat, though it seems to have bogged down in the last
    year.
    
    Red Hat launched its first attempt at a commercial support program,
    which would be implemented by numerous "support partners" worldwide.
    LWN publisher Eklektix, Inc. was one of those partners...it seemed
    like a good idea at the time...
    
    Linus's absence (due to the birth of his daughter) brought much kernel
    development work to a standstill; we commented thusly:
    
      Nonetheless, this episode has pointed out that the "Linus model"
      has an important single point of failure. When Linus is out,
      nothing happens, and people's time is wasted. Linus should really
      have a deputy, somebody he trusts to put in patches and generally
      help with the whole process.
      
    Three years later, it's nice to be able to note that, when Linus
    leaves town, development continues nicely via the "ac" patch series.
    
    Salon Magazine said that, sooner or later, Microsoft would have to
    think seriously about [17]releasing the source to Windows.
    
      For the open-code Windows scenario to come true, Microsoft would
      have to be in a much weaker business position than it's in today.
      But somewhere down the line, the company may be staring at a
      growing mountain of legal trouble. It may confront an unmanageably
      vast load of user support problems. Its engineers may face an
      impossible-to-meet calendar for debugging Windows 2001 or Windows
      NT 6.0. And somebody in Redmond just might throw up his hands in
      dismay and take a big, brave risk.
      
    Does the new look-but-don't-touch policy count?
    
    Eric Raymond released [18]The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ.
    
    Two years ago ([19]April 29, 1999 LWN): Richard Stallman [20]confirmed
    that the gcc and egcs projects would merge. One of the more unpleasant
    free software rivalries came to a happy ending.
    
    Red Hat 6.0 was released.
    
    InfoWorld [21]reported that SGI would announce a Linux strategy soon.
    
      Some companies that have announced Linux strategies are
      opportunists, looking to cash in on a hot industry trend, according
      to Belluzzo, and the SGI CEO said he wonders "how aggressively are
      they going to contribute technology" to the OS. Will companies
      actually help develop the OS or "will they just throw a Red Hat CD
      in a box," he added, referring to Red Hat Software, a premier Linux
      developer and distributor.
      
    SGI's strategy turned out to be quite a bit more than "just throw a
    Red Hat CD in a box", as can be seen from the [22]SGI and Linux
    website.
    
    SCO's CEO Doug Michels sneered at Linux in [23]this ComputerWorld
    interview.
    
      Linux is a religion. It's like considering the Catholic Church a
      competitor. I'm not a religion; I'm a commercial operating system.
      Companies like Red Hat ... take Linux technology with a lot less
      value added, and they package it up and say, 'Hey, this is better
      than SCO.' Well, it isn't. And very few customers are buying that
      story.
      
    Looks like Caldera bought it ... SCO's Unix division that is.
    
    One year ago ([24]April 27, 2000 LWN): Red Hat's "piranha" tool turned
    out to have been shipped with a default password enabled, leading to a
    security vulnerability and charges that Red Hat had included a "back
    door" in its product. The charges were overdone; it was a simple
    mistake that was found and fixed quickly.
    
    Red Hat's acquisition of Cygnus finally came to fruition with the
    announcement of the Red Hat Embedded Developer's Kit ([25]EDK).
    Source-Navigator, one of the tools in the kit, had been a proprietary
    product. Red Hat released Source-Navigator and the entire EDK under
    the GNU GPL.
    
    Applix launched [26]VistaSource, a spin off of its Linux division.
    According to this [27]News.com article, VistaSource was planning an
    IPO. Of course the IPO never happened and Applix recently sold
    VistaSource to Parallax Capital Partners. Now VistaSource will focus
    on tools for analysis of real time financial data.
    
    Salon's Andrew Leonard added [28]Chapter 6 to his "The Free Software
    Project" book. This chapter was actually the second to be posted and
    covers Mr. Leonard's trip to Finland.
    
      Finland's love affair with high technology runs deep. The closer
      you look, the less remarkable it seems that a 21-year-old
      undergraduate at the University of Helsinki cooked up some code
      that ended up throwing the entire software industry into turmoil.
      
    The [29]LWN Penguin Gallery had grown to no less than 233 unique
    penguins. Over 300 penguins roost there now. [30][Pingoo Tux] 
    
    
    April 26, 2001
    
    
    
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    3. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/
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    5. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/kernel.php3
    6. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/dists.php3
    7. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/desktop.php3
    8. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/devel.php3
    9. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/commerce.php3
   10. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/press.php3
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   12. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/letters.php3
   13. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/bigpage.php3
   14. http://lwn.net/2001/0419/history.php3
   15. http://lwn.net/1998/0430/
   16. http://lwn.net/1998/0430/a/shrinkwrap.html
   17. http://www.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/04/22straight.html
   18. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/linus/index.html
   19. http://lwn.net/1999/0429/
   20. http://lwn.net/1999/0429/a/gcc.html
   21. http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990420.pibelluzzo.htm
   22. http://www.sgi.com/linux/
   23. http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO35431,00.html
   24. http://lwn.net/2000/0427/
   25. http://www.redhat.com/products/embedded/edk/
   26. http://www.vistasource.com/
   27. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1753574.html
   28.
 http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/04/20/chapter_six_part_1/index.html?CP=SAL&DN
 =110
   29. http://lwn.net/Gallery/
   30. http://lwn.net/Gallery/
   31. http://lwn.net/2001/0426/letters.php3
   32. http://www.eklektix.com/
   33. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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