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		zer0zzz 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft's Azure Linux How is Linux a Unix derivative apart from some guy in Finland reading a sysV syscall manual in 1990?

bandrami 27 days ago [–]

I don't think SCO's claim ever got adjudicated but it was enough to let them shake down multiple companies

ndsipa_pomu 27 days ago | | [–]

IIRC SCO's claim was flawed as they didn't produce the infringing code and doubly flawed as they didn't even own the right to the Unix code.

zer0zzz 27 days ago | | [–]

Ahh yeah I remember that one now.

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