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General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.
Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.
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