Browsing, Open Source and Litigious Affairs
Internetnews.com wades through the top stories and issues that rocked the industry in 2006 in this ongoing series.
Just as the year in open source was cruising to a finish in 2006 -- all gussied up in a neat bow for the year, November arrived with a splash to re-draw the whole map.
That's when Novell and Microsoft managed to get the tongues of hard-bitten long-timers wagging over the companies' deal to work together on interoperability of open source systems and Microsoft products, and address potential intellectual property litigation issues.
The November 2nd agreement, as influential as it is, wasn't the only major open source news in 2006. But it was a year that included litigation, or potentially litigious affairs.
The Linux kernel, the core component of the Linux operating system, saw five kernel releases this year (2.6.19 in November 2.6.18 in September, 2.6.17 in June, 2.6.16 in March and 2.6.15 in January).
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