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Legal World and Childhood Dreams: Litigation Regarding Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 26, 2006

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“However, one should know about the Some suits regarding use of
Linux (see here) are pending. Their outcome might change the future
of Linux. It is instructive to know about them.

“AT&T had given one of the licenses of Unix to the
University of California, Berkeley (the University) at the time
when AT&T could not do computer business. The University
developed and released its own version of Unix, known as the
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It became freely available
and other companies incorporated it in their own products…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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