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

This preliminary vote is a milestone for the widespread adoption of the Open XML formats around the world for the benefit of millions of customers. Given how encouraging today's results were, we believe that the final tally in early 2008 will result in the ratification of Open XML as an ISO standard.

-- Microsoft

Microsoft's bid for fast-track of its proposed OOXML standard fails despite extensive lobbying efforts (article).

The KDE 4.0 release is delayed with December 20 being the new target date (announcement).

NetApp sues Sun alleging that ZFS infringes its patents (blog-announcement).

The first Python 3000 alpha release is made (announcement).

The 2007 Kernel Summit is held in Cambridge, England (coverage).

This is a great initial step forward in the open source graphics driver story, since AMD rang me about 3 months and asked me to help out on setting a direction for this project I've been looking forward to this day.

-- Dave Airlie

AMD announces a plan to open up documentation for ATI graphics chipsets, starting a process which will lead to free drivers for that hardware (announcement).

X11R7.3 is released (announcement).

Sun acquires ClusterFS (press release).

Mozilla launches "MailCo" to continue Thunderbird development; David Ascher comes on board to lead the new company (announcement).

The truth, as is often the case, is far less exciting than the conspiracy theorists would like to believe. It is simply this: I got it wrong. The nerds got it right.

-- Dan Lyons

With SCO going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy and likely to drop into Chapter 7, and given some of the mail and posts I've been getting, I agree that it is time to look back a bit at my experience with SCO. Like Dan Lyons, I was deceived. But unlike him, it wasn't just SCO; there were the Linux loyalists who pushed me onto SCO's side as well.

-- Rob Enderle

The SCO Group files for chapter 11 bankruptcy (press release).

The OpenBSD community goes ballistic when Linux developers add their copyright notices to the Linux ath5k driver (article).

The first alpha-quality ATI RadeonHD driver is released (announcement).

Two Busybox developers sue Monsoon Multimedia alleging GPL violations (press release).

The Linux Driver Project relaunches with Greg Kroah-Hartman as full-time lead (announcement).

The ath5k driver fuss is resolved with all changes being released under a BSD-compatible license (announcement).

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