The Matter Continues and Appears Likely to Do So Until either the Heat Death of the Universe or the Year of Linux on the Desktop – Whichever Comes Sooner.—The Register on the seemingly never ending Unix (Eunuchs?) lawsuit between IBM and the remnants of SCO.
The ancient dispute over ownership of UNIX, and perhaps Linux too, has returned to court. Again.
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SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive because the chance to emerge as owner of parts of the Linux codebase, and IBM’s code, had the potential to turn into a colossal payday.
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The matter continues and appears likely to do so until either the heat death of the universe or the year of Linux on the desktop – whichever comes sooner.
Please just make it stop.
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