U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Xinuos' Linux Ownership Appeal, Ending 35-Year Cloud
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Updated · Tom's Hardware · Aug 25
U.S. Appeals Court Rejects Xinuos' Linux Ownership Appeal, Ending 35-Year Cloud
3 articles · Updated · Tom's Hardware · Aug 25
Summary
A U.S. Court of Appeals rejected Xinuos' bid to revive its Linux ownership claims, effectively ending a decades-long legal fight over the operating system.
The ruling preserves earlier decisions against Xinuos and removes lingering uncertainty over future licensing claims, settlements, audits or forced software rewrites tied to Linux devices.
Linux arrives at that legal milestone 35 years after Linus Torvalds announced the project, having grown from about 10,000 lines of code to more than 40 million.
Today the open-source system underpins nearly 80% of web servers, almost all Top500 supercomputers and roughly 4 billion Android devices, underscoring the stakes of the dispute.