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HP to Indemnify Customers on Use of Linux (Reuters). Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N) on Wednesday said it would indemnify its customers who use the Linux operating system against potential legal troubles stemming from SCO Group Inc.'s ongoing lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. alleging copyright infringement. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 2:00:55 PM  comment []
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SCO Group: HP's Actions Support SCO's Position That Linux is Not Free HP's actions this morning reaffirm the fact that enterprise end users running Linux are exposed to legal risks. Rather than deny the existence of substantial structural problems with Linux as many Open Source leaders have done, HP is acknowledging that issues exist and is attempting to be responsive to its customers' request for relief. HP's actions are driving the Linux industry towards a licensing program. In other words, Linux is not free... [Linux Today] 11:31:07 AM comment []
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HP Offers Linux Purchasers Indemnification
Posted by
timothy
on Wednesday September 24, @08:17AM
from the at-least-on-paper dept.
PnViking writes points out this story in the Detroit News, writing "HP
is now covering any claims from SCO if you bought Linux and have a
support contract from them: '"We will provide full indemnity across the
entire suite for any SCO-related action," said Martin Fink, HP's vice
president of Linux. "If (customers) were to get sued by SCO, we would
take over their defense and assume liability on their behalf."'" The catch is, you have to be running it on HP equipment ;) |
HP Offers Linux Purchasers Indemnification
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A footnote to the browser warsThis table is from about 36 hours of web traffic on the lessons site. You'll note that it is all Interent Explorer. I'm sure that if we drill down a bit further we will turn up other browsers, but not in any numbers to be concerned with. The browser wars are over as far as I am concerned, though I do use Mozilla Firebird myself, and I will be coding for IE from now on.
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