Linux 2001 Timeline

From the people at Eklektix Inc. (ok, everyone knows them simply as LWN or Linux Weekly News) have written the Linux 2001 Timeline (you can read it all at once with this link, though it's 1MB download). Lots of funny notes from Linus, Eric Raymond, RMS, some sad moments. Who would have remembered that Linux kernel 2.4.0 went out only a year ago (Jan. 4, 2001), Eric Raymond promising SourceForge mirrors, and other tidbits -- A definite must-read.

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MPAA==RIAA==maffia

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

"Jack Valenti predicts that Congress will require copy-protection controls in nearly all consumer electronic devices and PCs. The lobbyist nonpareil for the Motion Picture Association of America delivered a stark warning to technology firms on Monday : Move quickly to choose standards for wrapping digital content in uncopyable layers of encryption or the federal government will do it for you."

There was another guy in Chicago in the '30s with an Italian-sounding name who used to go around businesses saying "accept our protection or something bad might happen to you".

Jack, you and your lobbyist goons should be sued for spreading thinly disguised threats like your do. Your pathetic schemes will end you making everybody's life miserable just because you don't know how to make a buck without twisting people's wrists. I say get fsck you with a steel wire brush ...