Top 9 Open Source Stories of 2008

The year 2008 showed open source - both in the form of Linux specifically and as software development model generally - coming into the mainstream like never before.

Here are the top highlights of the past year in the open source arena.

1. The Rise (and falling price) of the notebook with linux power and budget price
2. Sun's slow spiraling towards Nova through OpenOffice, OpenSolaris, MySQL and commitment to open source solutions
3. The Release of Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10
4. The Release of Google Chrome browser
5. The Release of Google Android Operating system
6. Nokia Picks up Symbian and pledged to make it available for free under the terms of the Eclipse Public License
7. Courts Rule that Copyrights on Open Source Source are enforceable
8. Debian's Open SSL Blunder
9. SCO Loses to Novell


Information Week has published top 10 open source stories of 2008.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212300206&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

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