Microsoft is up to its old tricks in the new year, as evidenced by a recent job posting for anti-FOSS personnel. This time, the thing that has Redmond sweating is what appears to be a mass migration of students to OpenOffice. And why wouldn’t they? “It’s free-as-in-beer and good enough — much better than the Microsoft Works that came on their computer,” noted Slashdot blogger David Masover.Well, the new year may be officially under way, but that hasn’t stopped Linux bloggers from continuing their reflections on all that transpired over the past decade.
At TuxRadar, for example, Graham Morrison looked back over the past 10 or so years and identified “15 game-changing Linux moments of the decade.”
Beginning with the release of version 2.4 of the Linux kernel back in 2001, all the way through to Oracle’s (Nasdaq: ORCL) purchase of Sun last year, Morrison zeroes in on the news he thinks mattered most for Linux.