Ottawa Citizen: Standing Up to SCO

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"Shad Young could soon receive a bill for something that he, and legions of passionately ideological techies, thought was free. But he doesn't plan to pay, and he doesn't plan to take it lying down.

"An Internet technologies consultant and college teacher in Ottawa, Young has been using Linux for years. He, along with millions of others, it should be noted; Since its birth in 1991, Linux has become the world's No. 1 open-source operating system...

"Now, a software company in Utah says it owns Linux, and is threatening to send a bill to anyone who uses it. Users of Linux include governments around the world, Google, the makers of The Lord of the Rings movies, Motorola Inc.'s mobile phone division--and of course, techies like Shad Young..."

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