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HP to indemnify Linux customers (News.com)HP to indemnify Linux customers (News.com)Posted Sep 24, 2003 12:48 UTC (Wed) by TheOneKEA (subscriber, #615)Parent article: HP to indemnify Linux customers (News.com) I wonder if this is because HP is trying to play it safe in case SCO's case actually holds water, which after their rebuttal of Red Hat, seems overwhelmingly unlikely, or if it's something a little less noble, i.e. "We offer indemnification against SCO! Buy our Linux boxen!"
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HP to indemnify Linux customers (News.com) Posted Sep 24, 2003 12:56 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link] Sounds more like the other way around. Would YOU indemnify your customers if you thought SCO had a chance in court?It looks like they decided that SCO was full of it and wanted to reassure their customers. That's good business sense (and business ethics), as long as they don't then turn around and cast FUD on other vendors.
HP to indemnify Linux customers (News.com) Posted Sep 24, 2003 19:37 UTC (Wed) by huaz (guest, #10168) [Link] This is not a good comment for good business practive of HP. This kind of comments hurt Linux, actually.
HP to indemnify Linux customers (News.com) Posted Sep 25, 2003 17:12 UTC (Thu) by spitzak (subscriber, #4593) [Link] If they were worried in the slightest about even the tiniest chance ofliability, they would have done something like indemnify only *new* customers, ie you have to pay something to get this protection. Such a move would get them some income to offset the liability and would serve exactly the same publicity purposes. Why assumme even one cent of possible liability for customers who have already paid them? Obviously they estimate the liability as zero.
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