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Mike Gunderloy's post on FOSS Factory got me thinking about what Linux needs to gain mass market acceptance. After thinking about it, I've come up with a list of four things that the Linux community needs that aren't (as far as I know) yet in the works.

This isn't a list of impossible goals -- all of these things are attainable if the Linux industry and community were to decide that they are priorities. That's not to say that they'd be easy to accomplish, but the Linux community has proven good at working together when it's important.

Word around the campfire is that Microsoft is starting to get a bit impatient with Yahoo! That's a good thing, from where I'm sitting.

A report from Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog (on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Web site) has the details, from an unnamed source.

It's been about 10 months since the Free Software Foundation released the final draft of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), the license that is used by the vast majority of free software projects. The question since then has been -- will the community get behind the new license, or will they continue to use the GPLv2?

The answer seems to be a little of both. Palamida has been tracking GPLv3 adoption, and has a snapshot of GPLv3 adoption through March 28, 2008. Palamida has tallied 2,042 GPLv3 projects and 179 LGPLv3 projects.