{"id":1170,"date":"2003-08-11T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/11\/unix-v-linux-lawsuit-explained\/"},"modified":"2003-08-11T23:22:47","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T03:22:47","slug":"unix-v-linux-lawsuit-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/11\/unix-v-linux-lawsuit-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIX v LINUX Lawsuit Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a590'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"160\" height=\"166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/linux.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"160\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"410\">\n<p>Confused by the ongoing lawsuit over UNIX code in LINUX?<br \/>\n        Not certain what small-cap SCO Group, copyright holder<br \/>\n        on the most popular flavor of UNIX, is trying to get out of LINUX booster<br \/>\n        IBM? Worried<br \/>\n        because last week, SCO announced the kind of fees it wants to collect<br \/>\n        from individual LINUX users&#8211; $699 per<br \/>\n        Linux<br \/>\n        desktop<br \/>\n        PC?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/bray\">Hiawatha Bray <\/a>explains all in his Boston Globe &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/articles\/2003\/08\/11\/linux_users_have_ibm_on_their_side\">Upgrade<\/a>&quot; column. In plain English. The<br \/>\n        bottom line? Not to worry.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/technology\/articles\/2003\/08\/11\/linux_users_have_ibm_on_their_side\">from the Boston<br \/>\n        Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confused by the ongoing lawsuit over UNIX code in LINUX? Not certain what small-cap SCO Group, copyright holder on the most popular flavor of UNIX, is trying to get out of LINUX booster IBM? Worried because last week, SCO announced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/11\/unix-v-linux-lawsuit-explained\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}