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Legal World and Childhood Dreams: Litigation Regarding Linux

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“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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