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

I'm out of here forever. I want to leave before I get so disgruntled that I end up using windows. I may play occasionally with userspace code but for me the kernel is a black hole that I don't want to enter the event horizon of again.

-- Con Kolivas

Emacs 22.1 is released just a little later than expected (announcement).

Xandros does the Microsoft deal (press release).

LG Electronics does the Microsoft deal (press release).

Former OSDL manager Tom Hanrahan joins Microsoft as its "Director of Linux interoperability." (announcement).

Open Source has grown up. Now it is time for us to stand up. I believe that when we do, the vendors who ignore our norms will suddenly recognize that they really do need to make a choice: to label their software correctly and honestly, or to license it with an OSI-approved license that matches their open source label.

-- Michael Tiemann

Centric CRM claims to be open source despite its use of a non-OSI-approved license (claim). A long debate on "badgeware" licenses ensues.

The first Linux Foundation collaboration summit is held (report).

Btrfs is revealed, offering hope of interesting developments in the filesystems area (announcement).

In the end, the license bears in my judgment many of the marks of legislation. It is a little too long; it is a little too complex. It divides cases where they might with some analytical clarity have been merged, and it merges cases that might with some analytical clarity have been divided. It isn't one man's work of art -- it's a community's work of self-definition.

-- Eben Moglen

Mark Shuttleworth denies that Ubuntu will do the Microsoft deal (denial). He appears to have meant it.

Linspire does the Microsoft deal (press release).

Mandriva says it will not be doing the Microsoft deal (statement).

GPLv3 is released (announcement).

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