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That the source code is capable of such compilation, however, does
not destroy the expressive nature of the source code itself. Thus
we conclude that the trial court's preliminary injunction barring
Bunner from disclosing DeCSS can fairly be characterized as a
prohibition of "pure" speech.
-- California state appeals court |
The Bunner DVD case takes a turn for the better when a state appeals court throws out the injunction prohibiting publication of the DeCSS source.
A settlement is reached in the Microsoft case that leaves many unsatisfied.
Marcelo Tosatti is named as the maintainer of the 2.4 kernel once 2.5 begins.
Debian 'woody' goes into hard freeze (announcement).
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Sharp launches its Linux-based Zaurus PDA (announcement).
IBM gets into the Linux cluster business (announcement).
The ext3 and InterMezzo filesystems are merged into the 2.4.15-pre
kernel.
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LynuxWorks releases BlueCat Linux 4.0 (announcement).
Covalent releases its "Enterprise Ready Server,", built around the (otherwise unreleased) Apache 2.0 server (announcement).
Lineo founder Bryan Sparks steps down as CEO of the company.
GNU-Darwin for the x86 is released.
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The fact that I've held on to 2.4.x for too long, mostly due to
the VM problems, really doesn't help. That just makes me _less_
likely to be careful. Especially when the last known VM problem
was fixed (ie the Oracle highmem deadlock), I had a very strong
urge to just "get the d*mn thing out to Marcelo".
-- Linus on the 2.4.15 mess |
DesktopLinux.com launches as a site dedicated to Linux for end users (site).
Galeon 1.0 is released.
Dmitry Sklyarov announces a defense based on constitutional challenges to the DMCA, based on free speech and jurisdictional issues.
The 2.5.0 kernel is released, complete with a filesystem corruption
bug (which also affects 2.4.15).
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The Linux Professional Institute launches its Level 2 exams (announcement).
VA Linux Systems reports a $9 million loss for the quarter (announcement).
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