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The Lone Coder
Reflections for the Unsung Linux Saviours
by Ken O. Burtch

2007 Open Source Year in Review

A mile high look at the year in Linux.

Date	Pegasoft	Linux Software	Linux Companies	Industry News
January	Dot Doodler added to PegaSoft web site Lone Coder: The Cost of Education Without Ethics	Ubuntu Linux adopts Linspire CRN package tool Adobe Flash 9 ships for Linux Google AJAX tools released as open source Google GMail opened to the general public	High-level Novell developer quits over Microsoft-Novell deal OSDL cuts staff	Second Life online world source code GPL'd
February	Last meeting of year because chairman is busy with family obligations Lone Coder: The Perfect SuSE Firewall Setup	Playstation 3's now available with Linux pre-installed		AMD cuts chip prices by 35% One Laptop per Child (OLPC) release beta 2 version of their $100 laptop Microsoft CEO Ballmer issues more threats against Linux Hackers attempt to bring down Internet root DNS servers
March		Google adds skins to their web site	HSBC announces plans to standardize on Novell SuSE Linux Red Hat to refocus on the Linux desktop	RIM CEO Balsillie resigns Alcatel-Lucent patent claim against Microsoft dismissed Judge orders Intel to find lost email for suit against AMD
April	Lone Coder: The Business Shell Evolution Blues	Fedora Core 7 released Ubuntu 7.4 ("Feisty Fawn") released	Google buyout of Doubleclick results in antitrust investigation	Several companies push for HTML 5 and the discarding of XHTML
May	Lone Coder: Good Customer Service, Good Business		Sun offers to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu against Microsoft patent claims Robert Cringley predicts Google's downfall	Dell to resume offering Linux as an option Security flaws found in Sun Java Development Kit
June	PegaSoft's web server failed Lone Coder: Linux and the Media: The Truth is Out There	GPL version 3 released Linus Torvalds speaks out against GPL version 3		Microsoft claims Vista more secure than Linux
July	Lone Coder: Kartoo: Visualizing the Internet	Google announces Google Desktop for Linux Google forced to change cookie duration	Google to buy Postini	Apple iPhone released Survey shows U.S. financial companies interested in open source, but not Canadian companies
August	Lone Coder: If Free is Illegal, Who's the Pirate? Tiny IDE for Ada/Anything updated for Java		Wyse adds Novell SuSE Linux to thin clients Novell defeats SCO in UNIX copyright lawsuit	Sun changes ticker symbol to JAVA
September	Tiny IDE for Ada/Anything updated for Cygwin Texttools updated for Cygwin Business Shell (BUSH) experimental Cygwin port Camel Flash game added to the PegaSoft web site Lone Coder: A Tale of Two Tests: Effective Interview Testing	GNOME 2.2 released	Red Hat announces rising revenues	Intel sued over "Dual Core" trademark UK announces shortages of Senior Programmers
October	Lone Coder: Another Tale of Two Interviews	Mandriva Linux 2008 released Novell OpenSuSE 10.3 released Mozilla Firefox to be adapted for mobile devices		Microsoft CEO Ballmer issues more threats against open source
November	Lone Coder: The Diversi Effect	Fedora Core 8 Released Wal-mart sells $199 Linux computer	Robert Cringley raises concerns that Google is becoming like Microsoft Red Hat and Sun sign Java agreement Linux legal team sues BusyBox over GPL infringement	China sends trojan drives to U.S. government SCO found guilty about lying about UNIX in Germany Google claims spam is in decline
December	Tiny IDE for Ada/Anything - PHP support Texttools updated for Tiny IDE Lone Coder: The Canadian Shield	Google Picasa 2.7 beta for Linux released Browser version of Open Office released	Office Depot adopts Novell SuSE Linux Novell announces Linux income increases	Average Canadian wage (all jobs) is $39,000 U.S. army acknowledges armed robots deployed in Iraq Windows Vista SP1 release candidate (though Vista was to need no service packs)

December 23, 2007

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