As 2008 draws to a close, the time for dreaming of White Christmases, sugar plum fairies and Ubuntu-loaded netbooks is over for another year. Here’s hoping everyone got their heart’s desire! Now it’s time to move on and turn our thoughts to the promise of the upcoming year. It’s a time to dream of change, of what might be — and of how to make that happen. That, it appears, is at least a rough approximation of what was going on in the thoughts of those over at the Linux Foundation.