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'Open source' products a growing concern

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The SCO Group's controversial Linux-related lawsuit against IBM does not go to trial for another year, but the Utah company's litigation already has corporate software buyers worried. Information technology professionals identify indemnification of "open source" products, such as the freely distributed Linux operating system, as a primary and growing concern, according to a new survey of 200 United States-based IT professionals.

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Comments (2)

purplewizard ·
Maybe it's time that everyone stopped worrying and just pressed on to use it. If everyone did so and then were being attacked legally later it would show how stupid the patents policy with regards to software is and how inhibiting to progress it is.

Not realistic maybe.
tuxchick ·
Funny how "real" "tech" "journalists" never notice how many times Microsoft has been sued. I daresay it's dozens of times, and they have lost nearly all of them. And why should IT managers care? So what if Microsoft/Sun/Novell/IBM/etc. all sue each other into oblivion? That doesn't affect their customers. SCO added a new wrinkle by suing their own customers. Well OK, not even that, as in the Daimler-Chrysler case. Just a big fat straw man.

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