USATODAY.com - Intel, IBM backing new fund to defend Linux users

This is kind of important. There's this company named SCO who owns Unix now.

In the news release:

"Linux, a variant of the widely used Unix operating system which can be copied and modified freely, emerged a decade ago and is being used to run the Internet, handle financial transactions and even manage the U.S. nuclear arsenal."

SCO claims that IBM and others are illegally using parts of Unix in Linux and demands that IBM and others pay. Which parts? SCO refuses to say, which has caused IBM to sue them back.

""By refusing to give the basis of their claims, what they're doing is preventing the Linux community from resolving any potential intellectual property issues," Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said."

Most people in the know think this will go away when it gets to court. But the problem is paying for the court cost. It's the small businesses and individual end users who really do make up the Linux Community. And SCO is trying to bully people. Give me money because you're using something that's mine! What am I using that's yours? Never you mind, and just hand over the money!

"McBride said SCO would make good on its threat to sue a "large Linux end user" within a month, adding "I think it's time to face this thing head on.""

A "large Linux end user" could be any business or non-profit organization.

I hate greed. SCO just wants money since they can't make any on their own.

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