| Should Linux users pay a licence? |
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We can bet that a popular topic at this week's LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco was whether Linux users should pay SCO a licence fee for Unix. (No!) But that is one of the things SCO wants, and it is suing IBM for $3bn to reinforce the point.
Briefly, SCO claims that some of the Unix code, which it owns, has been copied line for line into Linux; that IBM has moved code developed for Unix into Linux; and that some Unix "concepts and methods" have been used in Linux.
While they could be hard to prove, it would not be surprising if these claims were true, because what we now call Linux started as a project to clone Unix.
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