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Lawsuit could threaten open-source movement in schools - Corey Murray, eSchool News

SCO Group, which owns the Unix operating system, is suing IBM Corp. for allegedly trying to tank the value of Unix on the open market by illegally embedding strands of the operating system’s code into its open-source Linux platform. Though IBM denies the allegations, the billion-dollar lawsuit threatens to derail the open-source movement just as it has begun to catch on in schools. Because the source code for Linux is shared freely among users, who are allowed to add to or change it at will, the copied lines of Unix code now reside in the very heart of the Linux kernel owned by millions of users and distributed by other companies, SCO contends.

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