"A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Lisp is taking place in October at OOPSLA 2008. John McCarthy will give a talk about the early history of Lisp..."
Read more »Lisp’s 50th Birthday Celebration
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Mozilla's 10th birthday - March 31, 2008
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March 31, 1998 is the date that Mozilla was officially launched. It’s the date the first Mozilla code became publicly available under the terms of an official open source license and a governing body for the project — the Mozilla Organization — began its public work.
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Short Circuits 2: a celebration of Richard Stallman’s birthday
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"...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..."
Read more »Happy Birthday LFS
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It was nine years ago this month that Gerard Beekmans started the very successful project called Linux From Scratch, or LFS for short. It was December of the year 1999 when LFS was first released but that is not when it was started. That start began in February. Gerard is not exactly sure of the date, he just knows that it is in February.
Read more »Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org
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Today is the day OpenOffice.org turns 7.
Happy birthday to our favorite Office suite.
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Happy Birthday Debian!
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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.
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