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The Linux Year: A Look Back at 2005 |
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Source: PC Pro - Posted by Pax Dickinson
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With the birth of each new year, the accolade of 'year of the penguin' has been dusted off and pre-emptively awarded time after time. 2005 was no different, and there's little reason to suppose that 2006 will underwhelm either.
We're coming out of 2005 with a massive vindication of the open source movement. We now have patent bodies co-ordinating and even acquiring patents for royalty-free use by the community. The founding licence - the GNU General Public Licence - is being updated for the first time in more than 15 years. Any litigious threat seems to have had nearly no impact on Linux and open source: and this at a time when patent holders are waving their portfolios ever more wildly in court.
Plus there have been major shifts in the technological landscape as well. Not least of which was the momentum, right at the start of the year, behind Sun Microsystem's efforts to get its CDDL licence approved by the OSI as open source, under which it was to contribute its Solaris 10 operating system. It was ratified by the OSI later in January.
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