The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over
A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday.
The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left.
What the court decided
Three judges of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the lower court on 10 August. Guido Calabresi, Steven Menashi and Sarah Merriam signed the summary order.
The order affirms the judgment of the Southern District of New York. It calls Xinuos’s remaining arguments “without merit”.
A summary order carries no precedential effect.
What IBM does not dispute
The order is unusually blunt about what is not in question.
IBM does not dispute that Xinuos owns the copyrighted code. It does not dispute that it took the code from Project Monterey and put it into its...
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