Today is the day OpenOffice.org turns 7.
Happy birthday to our favorite Office suite.

"Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago today. To celebrate, Perl5Porters have released Perl5.10, the latest stable version of Perl 5. Happy Birthday Perl! ..."

"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 -- Since its release ten days ago, Stephen Fry's film "Happy Birthday to GNU" at www.gnu.org/fry has been viewed over a half-million times, and today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the availability of twenty-four translations including Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Hebrew, that have been prepared especially for this Saturd

"...today is Richard Stallman’s birthday. He is 54 years old. We’ve got cake AND cupcakes! Please enjoy them throughout the day. [...] We owe much thanks to RMS for his ideas and effort over the last 30 years. Software is powerful, software changes society and lives..."

I was surprised and delighted to find this video presentation by one of my favorite performers, Stephen Fry, called "Happy Birthday to GNU", on the GNU project homepage.

Nine years ago today, Oct 13th, OpenOffice.org was called into being. It has been a pretty successful 9 years, with OOo having achieved approx 10% market share and even more in certain segments and countries.

Today, eight years ago, Drupal 1.0.0 was released! The following snippet is taken directly from the original announcement...

Gaël Duval: "Happy birthday baby. At least you turned 10! In some way." --
* http://lwn.net/1998/0730/a/mandrake.html

Debian, the Linux distribution that Ubuntu is based on, is 14 years old today. Incredible! Here is a link to the original announcement by Ian Murdock.