[ Thanks to Russell
McOrmond for this link. ]
“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…”