Open source insurance for business

Posted by dave on Oct 31, 2005 9:30 AM EDT
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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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but how would insurance have benefited Linksys/cisco? tuxchick 1 879 Oct 31, 2005 4:42 PM

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