2007 Linux and free software timeline: February [LWN.net]

As ICD head analyst Walter Dickweed put it: "Releasing a new kernel on Superbowl Sunday means that the important 'pasty white nerd' constituency finally has something to do while the rest of the country sits comatose in front of their 65" plasma screens".

-- 2.6.20 is out

The Free Software Foundation Europe launches the Fiduciary License Agreement (coverage).

Bitfrost, the OLPC security framework, is announced (coverage).

The 2.6.20 kernel is released (announcement).

Linspire switches to Ubuntu as its base distribution (press release).

An OpenSolaris advisory board recommends against dual-licensing Solaris under GPLv3 (position paper).

Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat.

-- Steve Jobs

Wind River Systems acquires RTLinux (press release).

LWN publishes its first study of where kernel code comes from (who wrote 2.6.20?).

The Fedora 7 release is delayed by one month (announcement).

Eric Raymond says "goodbye" to Fedora; the world fails to end (parting rant).

Dell's customers ask for Linux-installed systems on its IdeaStorm poll.

[Quitting is] actually a very good idea. I definitely don't want to be associated with this project.

-- Daniel Robbins, one week later

Daniel Robbins returns to Gentoo (announcement).

The carrier-grade Linux 4.0 specification is released (press release).

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