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Who owns linux ?

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mushrooomprince:
Just a simple question, a simple answer would be nice.

psyjax:
No one, and everyone  :D

Stryker:
If I were to break the license agreement who would sue me?

Stryker:
seems my link answered my question. in the first paragraph it says linus and others have copyrighted it, they'd have to be the ones to protect it... so linus and those who wrote it own it. so... I guess a lot of people own pieces of it.

[ October 14, 2003: Message edited by: Stryker ]

mushrooomprince:

quote: n 1991 Finnish college student Linus Torvalds created an operating system for his own use  that used cheap PC hardware but provided the same capabilities as the expensive Unix systems he used at college. He made the new OS available on the Internet with source code, and protected it with a special license that allowed others to improve the software as long as the code remained visible and modifiable. In other words, open.
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