Techworld: Think-Tank Report Lays Into Linux

"Open-source software may be a legal time-bomb waiting to explode into a torrent of lawsuits, according to a new study from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (ADTI).

"The report follows on from controversial studies in 2002 and 2004 in which ADTI president Kenneth Brown spotlighted alleged security concerns around the open-source development model and challenged Linus Torvalds' claim to have invented the Linux kernel..."

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