2005 Linux and free software timeline: September [LWN.net]

Building its own portfolio of actual patents, not just the right to use them, enables the open-source community to effectively defend open-source software and to use its patents to negotiate cross-patent agreements. Open-source developers should file for as many software patents as they can and stockpile them.

--Stormy Peters

The Italian school system in Bolzano switches to Linux (article).

The bnetd project loses in US Federal Appeals Court; the DMCA interoperability provision apparently does not apply to code with "limited commercial purpose."

GNOME 2.12 is released (announcement).

Computer Associates frees up 14 patents for use in free software (press release).

SCO signs a marketing deal with MySQL AB (press release).

I think [UserLinux] continues to have value and I don't believe that basing on the work of any one company, even Ubuntu which may be more of a rich man's hobby project than a company, is the solution for support of Linux distributions.... The project can be resurrected. Want to try?

--Bruce Perens. Nobody tried.

The web site for Katrina relief applications is IE-only, effectively blocking Linux users.

Slackware Linux 10.2 is released (announcement).

Microsoft challenges the Massachusetts plan to require open formats for government documents.

An attempt to trademark the term "Linux" in Australia fails.

Google is sued by the Authors' Guild over its plans for Google Print (article).

The vote in the European Parliament rejected one attempt to impose software patents on the European Union, but it did not settle the issue. We have driven off the software patent forces, but not defeated them. They will surely attack again in another way.

--Richard Stallman

Red Hat EL5 goes into testing for Common Criteria EAL 4 status; it would be the first Linux system to attain that level (press release).

Massachusetts officially decides to go with OpenDocument (Groklaw).

Google's summer of code concludes; some 400 projects were funded.

Peru passes a law encouraging free software use by government (Groklaw).

Efforts begin to legislate a broadcast flag in the US; none succeed (article).

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