Posted Nov 17, 2003 17:00 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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Actually, Microsoft is now offering indemnification in some circumstances, but it is limited to the purchase price of the software. If this is the new standard, free software authors could afford to offer it and promise to refund the zero dollars that users have paid.
JBoss Group goes for indemnification
Posted Nov 18, 2003 17:41 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
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Seeing that JBoss is now licensed with Sun, the grassy knoll theories look even better.