What was the most important FOSS event in 2011?
Posted: 17 Dec 2011, 15:02
What was the most important FLOSS (free/libre/open-source software) event in 2011? 
You will probably get a lot of different answers but here are the Berserk dictated options:
Android/Linux overtaking iPhone
Intrusions at Kernel.org and LinuxFoundation.org
Oracle v Google
Google and its partners actively facilitating and promoting use of Linux to consumers and OEMs and retailers are helping to change the world of IT rather than holding it back.
And the effect that Android and GNU/Linux will probably all take retail shelf space, and no one will be able to say with honesty that FLOSS isn't 'there' yet.
In short it has been placed a major wedge into the IT monopoly and even though there are desperate and pathetic looking efforts to reestablish a monopoly situation with certification, there will be ways around it.
Or is it like the Windows boy and shlashdot blogger Hairyfeet puts it?
Does the death of Steve Jobs qualify as a FLOSS event and is it important?
I think I have made my pick: Google has brought Linux to the knowledge of average Joe - that is the most important factor for FLOSS to grow.
So what is your pick?
You will probably get a lot of different answers but here are the Berserk dictated options:
Android/Linux overtaking iPhone
Intrusions at Kernel.org and LinuxFoundation.org
Oracle v Google
Google and its partners actively facilitating and promoting use of Linux to consumers and OEMs and retailers are helping to change the world of IT rather than holding it back.
And the effect that Android and GNU/Linux will probably all take retail shelf space, and no one will be able to say with honesty that FLOSS isn't 'there' yet.
In short it has been placed a major wedge into the IT monopoly and even though there are desperate and pathetic looking efforts to reestablish a monopoly situation with certification, there will be ways around it.
Or is it like the Windows boy and shlashdot blogger Hairyfeet puts it?
I'd say it would be a toss-up between GNOME shell and Unity proving DE developers are insane and Mozilla single-handedly throwing away their users to IE and Chrome and setting back business adoption of FOSS by a good couple of years,
Does the death of Steve Jobs qualify as a FLOSS event and is it important?
I think I have made my pick: Google has brought Linux to the knowledge of average Joe - that is the most important factor for FLOSS to grow.
So what is your pick?