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SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done, but zombie case shuffles on elsewhere

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>Does anyone know which components form this dispute?

The forward slashes in paths.

Microsoft are a dynamically innovative company who were able to invent the new improved backslash (probably by leveraging synergies) while Linux just slavishly copied SCO forward slash.

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