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Open source insurance for business

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In 2003, Linksys and its parent company Cisco found out they were in violation of the terms of the GNU General Public License because of some embedded open source software used in the company's WRT54G wireless access point. If Cisco had known about the violation ahead of time, it may have been able to avoid much of the expense and heartache of the subsequent investigation conducted by lawyers with the Free Software Foundation. A new type of insurance available to companies whose products may include snippets of free software code promises to expose potential problems before its too late.

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Comments (2)

tuxchick ·
The FSF didn't go after them for monetary damages, but simply to come into compliance with the GPL. Sounds like just another protection racket to me.
bstadil ·
This was because FSF is interested in compliance not monetary gain. Juxtapose this with SCO or some of the companies that ex MSer Myhrwold is involved in.

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