Over on
Internetnews.com, Sean Michael Kerner has done a bang-up job in summing up the big happenings in 2007 regarding open source and Linux.
It was a huge year for open source, both technology-wise and patent-wise. Kerner writes:
2007 is a year that will long be remembered in the open source and Linux communities. It was a year in which the twin underpinnings of what makes open source successful and what could serve to destroy it made the headlines.
On the pro side, Linux made major technology advances this year and a key new license emerged for open source. On the flipside patents and intellectual property issues continued to threaten the survival and success of the open source ecosystem.
But before you say it was the year of the Linux, keep in mind that, as Kerner writes, 2007 was not, however, the year of the Linux desktop, though Linux did make some inroads in the consumer space.
Dell began selling Ubuntu Linux and
Wal-Mart offered Linux PCs on its shelves.
On one of the sites I edit,
Intranet Journal.com, any open source story we ran got huge eyeballs, as they say, which was eye-opening to me and other editors. Theres passion in them thar open source hills.
What a difference a year makes, and Im open to what happens with open source in 2008.
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