Then there was Microsoft's odd about-face. It partnered with long-time nemesis -- and Red Hat rival -- Novell. I believed the move was a thinly veiled plot to knock Linux leader Red Hat down a few pegs.
In this extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department -- and what that means for the future of the internet