[KLUG Advocacy] The LWN Timeline for 2005

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >LWN released there 2005 time line today
> >( http://lwn.net/Articles/Timeline2005/ ) ,  and I couldn't help
> >spending my lunch time reading it.  And it confirmed my feelings about
> >2005: "What a yawner!"  I think C-SPAN frequently has more action.  And
> >multimedia still sucks.....
> We coiuld be charitable, 

"charitable"!  Who, me?

> and call 2005 a year of transition.

Ok.  I suppose we did get OOo 2.0,  but that didn't make their time line
(or I missed it).

> I've seen the reputation of Linux rise in a number of circles. Not that
> anything extraordrinary is happening. A wider cirecle of people is accepting 
> Linux and stuff that run on Linux as another legitimate part of the toolbox.
> This is an unspectacular but nessesary step; it has to be another tool before 
> it can really be seen as valuable by the more risk-averse.