Ten-year timeline part 6: almost to the present

Part 5 of this increasingly long series stopped in March, 2004, when BitMover loudly proclaimed that the use of BitKeeper had doubled the pace of kernel development. This installment picks up from there, looking at a year when BitKeeper remained in the news, the SCO case was in progress, software patents became more threatening, and more. Click below (subscribers only) for the full text.

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