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

I'm more than twice as effective as Viagra.

The 2.6.23 kernel is released (announcement).

openSUSE 10.3 is released (announcement).

Mandriva Linux 2008 is released (announcement).

Novell lays off the AppArmor development team, but "remains committed" to the code (news.com).

Over 1,000 people contributed code to Firefox 2. Mozilla employed around 50 of those people. In 2006, approximately 10,000 people downloaded nightly builds every day; this number continues to grow. Sixteen thousand people reported bugs or potential issues in our bug-tracking system; something like a thousand comments a day were added to the issue-tracker.

-- Mitchell Baker

Mozilla announces that it brought in $66.8 million in 2006 (mitchell's blog).

Red Hat and Novell are sued for patent infringement by IP Innovations LLC (article).

The OSI approves two Microsoft licenses as officially "open source" (announcement).

GIMP 2.4 is released (release notes).

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) is released (announcement).

NetApp, in bringing this litigation, has announced that it wishes to prevent Sun from sharing ZFS with the community. This conduct is a misuse of questionable patents to prevent the spread of valuable technology. Using patent threats and litigation against free software and open source communities is an abuse of the public interest the law is supposed to serve.

-- Eben Moglen

Turbolinux does the Microsoft deal (press release).

Sun files a retaliatory patent suit against NetApp (announcement).

The GNOME Foundation's participation in the OOXML standardization process comes to light, resulting in much controversy (article).

SCO claims to have a buyer for its Linux business (Linux-watch).

The GPL infringement suit against Monsoon Multimedia is settled (announcement).

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