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

We dedicate this release to the memory of long-time developer Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino, who focused his life on IPv6 deployment for everyone. Without his BSD and IETF participation, IPv6 would not be where it is today.

-- OpenBSD

OpenBSD 4.2 is released (announcement).

The OpenSolaris developer preview is released; the community goes into a furor over Sun's use of the "OpenSolaris" name (announcement).

Google launches the Open Handset Alliance and the Android platform (web site).

Fedora 8 is released (announcement).

Novell establishes a board for the openSUSE project (board page). A set of guiding principles was also adopted.

The question worth asking here is if the community has come to a point where we no longer care about quality and technical perfection in what we do, instead we are going to join the proprietary software vendors in a game of FUD and mud slinging.

-- Christian Schaller

The Open Document Foundation shuts down after launching an attack against the ODF format.

The first KDE 4.0 release candidate appears (announcement).

The Busybox developers launch GPL-enforcement suits against Xterasys and High-Gain Antennas (announcement).

The OLPC XO laptop goes into mass production, with Peru being the first large recipient.

We in the Open Source and Free Software community should be cautious about taking a black and white approach to a process that is rapidly turning standards into industrial weapons to the detriment of our users, software and communities. We face the very real danger that standards will suffer the same fate as patents: created to spur innovation and sharing, but manipulated to control and restrain.

-- the GNOME Foundation

The GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 is released (announcement).

Harald Welte files a GPL-enforcement suit against Iliad in France (announcement).

Novell gets the go-ahead from the bankruptcy court to pursue its claims against SCO (groklaw).

The OLPC project is sued for patent infringement - the patent involved being filed in Nigeria (press release).

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