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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   08 Mar 2001  18:11:48
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 This week in Linux history
 
    Three years ago ([15]March 12, 1998 LWN): Netscape finally came out
    with the license under which the Mozilla browser would be released.
    Not everybody liked the MPL, but it was generally seen as an attempt
    to balance Netscape's interests (being able to release proprietary
    browsers with Mozilla code) and the need for a free license. Certainly
    (then) Debian Project leader [16]Bruce Perens was pleased:
    
      This is a historic day for us, since it means that Netscape will
      eventually be in the "main" part of Debian and all Linux systems,
      not the "non-free" section any longer!
      
    Ralph Nader started pressing Dell to sell Linux-installed systems.
    Sun, meanwhile, [17]offered a 70% discount for those willing to
    upgrade to Solaris 2.6 from Linux.
    
    Development kernel 2.1.90pre [18]was released:
    
      I just put a pre-90 on ftp.kernel.org, and I'm happy to report that
      Davem seems to have found and fixed the TCP performance problem,
      which means that the code-freeze for 2.2 is going to go into effect
      shortly..
      -- Linus
      
    Little did we know that 2.2 was still almost a year away...
    
    Two years ago ([19]March 11, 1999 LWN): Echos from LinuxWorld still
    dominated the landscape, in many forms. The "free software vs. open
    source" battle raged on:
    
      However, in Stallman's eyes, the programming community is more
      interested in talking about practical issues, like performance --
      an anathema to Stallman. And this conflict is partly why Stallman
      is marginalized. Most people don't want to talk about freedom.
      There's been a splintering of the movement: away from free software
      created by ideologues to open-source software created by
      business-friendly pragmatists like Torvalds.
      -- [20]Wired News.
      
    In the rest of the world, though, some felt that they needed to
    counteract some of the attention brought to Linux via bad press:
    
      You implicitly trust a vendor to deliver a product or service as
      promised. And if the product or service is of poor quality or
      fails, you have recourse: a lawsuit. Right now Linux is more
      Woodstock than Main Street. There aren't enough vendors dedicated
      to the operating system, and it's kind of hard to sue the surfer in
      Venice Beach, Calif., who gives you poor Linux advice.
      -- [21]CIO
      
      But will Linux find its way into the enterprise and (gasp) the
      corporate desktop? Don't bet on it. Commercial firms are
      risk-averse by nature. They are more than willing to pay an OS
      license for the right to sue somebody if things go wrong.
      -- [22]Internet Week.
      
    The "who do you sue" argument seems to have faded over the last two
    years. Perhaps people have figured out that the number of successful
    lawsuits against proprietary software vendors is pretty low...
    
    Debian 2.1 ("slink") was [23]released on March 9.
    
    Red Hat announced equity investments from Compaq, IBM, Novell, and
    Oracle. It was still a big deal back in those days.
    
    One year ago ([24]March 9, 2000 LWN): Free books online were the theme
    of the week, with the availability of [25]Grokking the GIMP, an
    updated version of [26]Using Samba, and the first bits of Andrew
    Leonard's [27]Free Software Project.
    
    Linux-Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack was released.
    
    The OpenNMS project [28]launched 'BlueBird', a free enterprise network
    management system. Believe it or not, the first stable release of
    DOSemu was announced, after that system had been used by many for
    years. Also [29]released was "McKinley," the first preview of the
    Helix (now Ximian) GNOME desktop.
    
    Bluepoint Linux surprised the world by becoming a publicly-traded
    company overnight via a "reverse takeover" deal with a shell
    corporation. LinuxMall.com completed its merger with Frank Kasper &
    Associates. Meanwhile investors were beginning to complain about
    Corel's proposed merger with Inprise; Inprise director Robert Coates
    resigned in protest.
    
    Forbes [30]wondered what might become of SGI:
    
      The thinking at this point is that the most likely buyer would be a
      company like VA Linux, the maker of Linux-based workstations.
      Acquiring SGI would give that young company established engineering
      skills, plus entry into businesses that already use SGI systems.
      
    Times have changed somewhat...SGI is now worth four times VA.
    March 8, 2001
    
    
    
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   17. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/content/pcwk/1510/292152.html
   18. http://lwn.net/1998/0312/a/pre90.html
   19. http://lwn.net/1999/0311/
   20. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,18291,00.html
   21. http://www.cio.com/archive/031599_publisher.html
   22. http://www.internetwk.com/columns/pers030899.htm
   23. http://lwn.net/1999/0311/a/debian.html
   24. http://lwn.net/2000/0309/
   25. http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html
   26. http://samba.he.net/
   27. http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/index.html
   28. http://lwn.net/2000/0309/a/opennms.html
   29. http://lwn.net/2000/0309/a/helix-gnome.html
   30. http://www.forbes.com/2000/03/03/mu4.html
   31. http://lwn.net/2001/0308/letters.php3
   32. http://www.eklektix.com/
   33. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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