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 This week in Linux history
 
    Five years ago: Caldera [14]announced its "Network Desktop 1.0"
    distribution.
    
    The [15]Call For Papers for Linux-Expo 1996 (hosted by "Linux Users'
    Group (LUG) at North Carolina State University (NCSU)") went out.
    
    Three years ago ([16]February 19, 1998 LWN): Richard Stallman
    [17]weighed in against the new term "open source":
    
      The main argument for the term "open source" is that "free
      software" makes some people uneasy. That's true: talking about
      freedom, about ethical issues, about responsibilities as well as
      convenience, can trigger discomfort. This asks people to think
      about things they might rather keep out of mind. It does not follow
      that society would be better off if we stop talking about these
      things.
      
    It is the third anniversary of the (in)famous Jesse Berst [18]Fired
    for Choosing Linux? article:
    
      Okay, Linux may have a low, low cost. And many technical merits.
      And lots of help for do-it-yourselfers. But can it pass the
      all-important "cover your ass" test? I'm not so sure. There's no
      single company behind Linux. No single source of support. No sales
      rep you can call in and yell at if Linux fails unexpectedly,
      leaving you without an operative Web site. Nobody to blame, in
      other words. Except you, if you were the person who recommended
      this product.
      
    It is also, more or less, the third anniversary of Don Marti's
    [19]Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter.
    
    Two years ago [20]February 18, 1999 LWN): Windows Refund Day came and
    went. Turnout was small, refunds were nonexistent.
    
    Bruce Perens got fed up with "open source" and said [21]it's time to
    talk about free software again:
    
      Most hackers know that Free Software and Open Source are just two
      words for the same thing. Unfortunately, though, Open Source has
      de-emphasized the importance of the freedoms involved in Free
      Software. It's time for us to fix that. We must make it clear to
      the world that those freedoms are still important, and that
      software such as Linux would not be around without them.
      
    Fortune [22]reported on Microsoft's "Linux Defense", which was
    relatively new at that time.
    
      But no moment has been quite so Alice in Wonderland as the one
      we're about to see.... The video begins. "Hello," chirps an
      effervescent young Microsoft employee. "This is a demonstration of
      the Caldera OpenLinux operating system." Caldera is a small company
      that, in a delicious irony, is currently suing Microsoft on
      antitrust grounds. The young Microsoftie continues: "The
      demonstration will show that Caldera's operating system provides
      effective functionality for end users."
      
    Debian 2.0r5 was [23]released. Glibc 2.1 was [24]released, then
    withdrawn "until some political issues are worked out." The problem,
    it seems, is that gcc 2.8 could not compile it (it compiled with
    egcs). The gcc/egcs split, happily, has long since gone away.
    
    The Burlington Coat Factory announced that it would install Linux in
    250 stores; this was one of the first high-profile Linux deployment
    announcements.
    
    One year ago ([25]February 17, 2000 LWN): IDC released a study showing
    that Linux was the number-two server operating system, with 25% of the
    market. Windows NT came out on top, with 38%. Linux and Unix systems
    together, however, showed up on more systems than NT.
    
    Development kernel 2.3.46 came out; included therein was Richard
    Gooch's devfs system. The inclusion of devfs had been the subject of
    flame wars for almost two years. One year later, it remains to be seen
    whether the distributors will set up their systems to use devfs or
    not.
    
    Andrew Leonard's [26]Free Software Project launched on Salon. A year
    later, progress seems to have slowed, but there is a bunch of good
    writing there.
    
    The UCITA "shrink wrap software" law passed in Virginia. UCITA got off
    to a quick start, but appears to have stalled since then.
    
    One way to make "open source" look good:
    
      Am I the only one to see that Torvalds and other open-source
      software revolutionaries are acting out the finale of George
      Orwell's Animal Farm? Orwell's farmhouse is full of open-source
      pigs, which are now almost indistinguishable from the proprietary
      humans they recently overthrew. It's true that I have been unkind
      to the "open sores" movement. But to be clear, anyone is welcome to
      beat Microsoft with better software, even a utopian community of
      volunteer programmers. May the best software win.
      -- [27]Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld
    
    
    
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   28. http://lwn.net/2001/0215/letters.php3
   29. http://www.eklektix.com/
   30. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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