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  • Legal summits to tackle Linux

    The Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced two legal summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software.

  • Novell offers legal protection for Linux

    Novell expects this week to begin offering SuSE Linux customers some legal protection for using the open-source operating system, the fourth legal umbrella to emerge from a computing industry grappling with legal threats brought by SCO Group.

  • SCO and Linux: The legal rights and wrongs

    Q&A An intellectual-property lawyer gives advice to technology customers concerned by SCO's Linux action

  • SCO Group returns from the dead to haunt Linux

    SCO Group, which for years has claimed that Linux infringes on its Unix intellectual property, has received new funding and seems set to continue its battle against the open source operating system.

  • SCO boss boos Linux from the sidelines

    Troubled software maker SCO's chief executive has claimed the Linux operating system includes Unix source code, during a court case in which Novell is suing SCO for royalties on Unix.

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  • SCO and Linux: The legal rights and wrongs

    Q&A An intellectual-property lawyer gives advice to technology customers concerned by SCO's Linux action

  • Saving Linux from the lawyers

    CEO Stuart Cohen talks about OSDL's efforts to head off patent claims against the community-developed operating system.

  • Linux in crisis

    Cheap shot or brilliant tactical move? Whichever the case, one can't help but question the timing of the SCO Group's latest legal wrangle.

  • Microsoft-SCO: Fact and fiction

    Is Microsoft funding the SCO Group's legal fight against Linux? ZDNet hopes to shed some light and answer common questions swirling around the duo's relationship.

  • Patent problems plague Linux

    The patent system is supposed to encourage technological innovation. Instead, it rewards those who have the knowledge and resources to work it to their advantage.

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Reviews (51)

  • Linux takes the game to Microsoft

    A group of programmers seeking to put Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video gaming console has created the software that will eventually replace the machine's built-in system software. The new software, called a Basic Input Output System (BIOS), is the latest step towards turning the US$199 console into a Linux workstation.

  • Squeeze Linux into Xbox, win US$200,000

    A software development project aimed at getting the Linux operating system to run on Microsoft's Xbox is offering a larger incentive for would-be developers--to the tune of US$200,000.

  • Linux kernel makes Xbox appearance

    The Xbox Linux Project, a volunteer effort aimed at running the Linux operating system on Microsoft's Xbox gaming console, said it has succeeded in booting the Linux kernel--a small but important step forward.

  • Lindows takes wraps off new version

    Lindows, the software start-up offering a consumer-friendly version of the Linux operating system, announced a new version of its software Wednesday.

  • Xbox gets the penguin treatment

    A hacker group specializing in software for Microsoft's Xbox has announced the release of the first full version of Linux for the game console.

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