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A coalition of Canadian computer professionals dedicated to open-source software is planning to oppose legal efforts to extract licence fees from Linux users.
The Canadian Linux Interests Coalition, organized by members of Canada's network of Linux Users Groups, says it plans to fight the SCO Group, which holds certain patents on the Unix operating system. The company claims that the Linux kernel — the core of the system — contains programming code that it owns, and seeks to collect royalties on installations of Linux.
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