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Well there is that one company that keeps claiming that they own C++ and keeps trying to sue people for using it.


Don’t you mean java?


Oh? Please expand.


Sorry for the late response. A company named SCO claims they own the language. They obviously don't (possibly just a specific compiler), but they still try (or tried for a while) to charge licensing fees. I'm having a hard time finding references to this now, but here are two links that talk a bit about it:

https://lwn.net/Articles/39227/

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#revenues




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