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Linus wants to be paid for Linux!
Apparently, Linus Torvald (Godfather of Linux) is expecting payment for his software now?!

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Very interesting!!
i just wonder if he is gonna ask everone using Linux in the world for money and will he get any money??
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Oh dear... no one is going to be charged for the use of Linux. Nowhere, in any article, does it say that. Linux will always be free.
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US$5000 for use of the Linux name
Note that corporations are to pay for using the name 'Linux' in their product names. This is to protect the trademark from disrepute. Would you want anybody to be able to make any crappy little program and slapping the name Linux on it? That is all this protects.

That said, companies are free to make a version of Linux without using the name 'Linux'.

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Fees range from $200 and go up to $5,000 for commercial firms with revenue greater than $1 million.
The fee is hardly a dent in the pocket change of the company.

Again, this is a trademark on the name, not the software.
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