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Rather than doing any April Fools' Jokes around here (the GNOME project is claiming GNOME 3.0 has been delayed to September), yesterday and today we're looking at a few different headlines that would cause great impact for Linux. Yesterday was looking at what announcements would greatly benefit Linux along with the community's response, but today we're looking at what would cause great harm and be disastrous to Linux and open-source software.

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I don't think it would be that disastrous. Software patents only exist in Amerika.

Id add

Google Chrome get pushed as 'open source' and 'linux'. Yes, I know its using the linux kernel and some other GNU/linux parts. People will be driven away from linux/open source if they get some chromeOS netbook and find that its locked down, installing programs difficult or impossible, and installing a different OS just as hard.

Wayland gets released 'to early'. As I understand it, right now it not usable with ATI/AMD and nVidia closed drivers. Sure, the open source drivers work now if you have a high enough kernel version with ATI/AMD (2.6.38) dont mind no page-flipping with nouveau (probably coming in 2.6.39) and run a patch. Not surprising that it only runs well with intel video, considering that an intel employee is he main developer.

Canonical is getting to be a problem as well. Half-truths (at best) about Chrome from both canonical and google (canonical has called Chrome 'open source' when its nothing of the kind). I cant recall google explicitly calling Chrome 'open source' but they sure give the impression that it is....