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2005 Linux and free software timeline: May
Debian 'sarge' is frozen at last (announcement).
The US broadcast flag rule is thrown out by a federal appeals court (article). Novell acquires Immunix (press release). Former SUSE president Richard Seibt also leaves Novell. Reporter Maureen O'Gara is forced out of Sys-con after her attacks go too far.
The Harmony Project launches with a goal of creating an entirely free Java implementation (announcement). The Wine project gets legal representation from the Software Freedom Law Center (announcement). Apple and the KHTML developers have a minor falling-out over the contribution back (or lack thereof) of Apple's changes (article).
Nokia makes a patent pledge, but it falls short of what the community would like (statement).
Nokia announces the 770 tablet, a Linux-powered gadget (press release).
FreeBSD 5.4 is released (announcement). OpenBSD 3.7 is released (announcement). OSDL lays off Linux developers to "rebalance" its work force toward marketing. OpenDocument is approved as an OASIS standard (press release).
The Philips webcam driver is partially removed from the kernel
(again) due to copyright worries (article).
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