A Dickens of a copyright case at last approaches its endgame
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| The company's revenues from Unix, the operating system it sued
| IBM to protect, continue to shrink as Linux eats into that
| market; and its workforce is down to 142, from around 300 in
| 2003, when it first filed its suit.
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| From a high of $20 in September 2003, earlier this week it hit
| almost $1. An interactive chart is at finance.yahoo.com.
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| "The SCO case," says Zittrain, "is likely not to greatly impact Linux. But
| think there are plenty of other shoes still to drop against free
| software."
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http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,,2007703,00.html
Microsoft may be next in line, but it could once again use proxies, to which
it'll funnel some cash. That's how it does its anti-Open Source lobbying as
well, through pressure groups.
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