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Is the escalating legal dispute between IBM and SCO Group, an obscure Utah software company, more than a storm in a teacup? At issue is the tangled heritage of the Unix operating system, and its relationship to Linux, a free operating system built by programmers collaborating via the internet. Bat...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 367; no. 8329; p. 56 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
6/21/2003
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