--- title: Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very... description: An appeals court has upheld a ruling that Xinuos's long-running lawsuit over Unix and Linux intellectual property claims against IBM and Red Hat is dead,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very-deep-in-the-grave-xksizrjx1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave | daily.dev og:description: An appeals court has upheld a ruling that Xinuos's long-running lawsuit over Unix and Linux intellectual property claims against IBM and Red Hat is dead,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very-deep-in-the-grave-xksizrjx1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XKsIzrJX1.png og:image:alt: Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 2 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An appeals court has upheld a ruling that Xinuos's long-running lawsuit over Unix and Linux intellectual property claims against IBM and Red Hat is dead, though Xinuos is pursuing a long-shot bid for a re-hearing. 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