The days of summer may be dwindling at last here in the Linux blogosphere, but that doesn’t mean things are cooling off. No indeed, the unseasonably scorching temperatures have been matched only by the sizzling nature of the news — in particular, Ballmer is out, and Microsoft is purchasing Nokia! The closure of Groklaw and the failure of Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge funding campaign have had more than a few Linux bloggers stuck in the doldrums, truth be told. Now, however, the news out of Redmond has everyone bright-eyed and bushy-tailed once again.
