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2004 Linux Timeline: February
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).
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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2004 Linux Timeline: February Posted Jan 15, 2005 22:40 UTC (Sat) by dmag (subscriber, #17775) [Link] "Groklaw founder Pamela Jones joins Open Source Risk Management as its Director of Research" -- But then she resigns to keep Groklaw independant.
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