2004 Linux Timeline: February [LWN.net]

Before, many organizations may have been willing to write a five-figure check to avoid legal risks and move on with business. We suspect anyone currently considering such an expenditure may now worry that they will be taken to task for wasting corporate funds. As a consequence, we have reduced our expectation for FY04 SCOSource revenue by 90%.

--Decatur Jones gets wise.

The 2.6.2 kernel is released (announcement). [Mandrake]

Mandrakesoft splits its distribution releases into "community" and "official" versions (announcement).

KDE 3.2 is released (announcement).

Lindows.com loses in court to Microsoft in the Netherlands over the use of the "Lindows" name.

Groklaw founder Pamela Jones joins Open Source Risk Management as its Director of Research (press release).

SCO amends its complaint against IBM adding charges for copyright infringement (for continuing to distribute AIX) and interference with a contract (getting Novell to waive any violations on IBM's part).

I'm happy you put it that way, because otherwise I'd have had to take out my chain saw and run around naked trying to kill you.

--Linus Torvalds

Lindows wins in U.S. District Court; the ruling states that "windows" is a generic term.

Novell moves to dismiss SCO's slander of title suit (Groklaw coverage).

The 2.6.3 kernel is released (announcement).

The Netfilter Project resolves a GPL violation with Allnet GmbH (announcement).

cAos 1.0 is released (announcement).

OpenPKG 2.0 is release (announcement).

Debian aims for a March 15 freeze for sarge, a goal which proves far too ambitious (release update).

Subversion 1.0 is released (announcement).

Alan Cox wins the FSF's Free Software Award.

A California appeals court reverses the prohibition on the publication of DeCSS on free speech grounds.

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