Federal judiciary to move to Linux [LWN.net]

Federal judiciary to move to Linux

Posted Nov 19, 2003 19:23 UTC (Wed) by sphealey (guest, #1028)
In reply to: Federal judiciary to move to Linux by mmarq
Parent article: Federal judiciary to move to Linux

Did your employer received threatening letters about those possible litigations ?

Yes, every day. It was a big company.

If they came in to the end user of the product, we sent them to Legal. 99.95% of the time a counter-bark letter from Legal solved the problem. 0.05% of the time there was a legitimate dispute over the claim.

I don't know what the actual percentage of times we had to pay anyone was, but I would guess something like 0.001% of all letters received. That's why I find some of SCO's comments mildly amusing - semi-non-threatening letters arrive by the metric ton at corporations all over the US every week. Companies know how to handle them.

sPh

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Federal judiciary to move to Linux

Posted Nov 20, 2003 0:29 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

I had no doubt that SCO was bluffing all the time... and i'm sure that they missed concerning to frighten Linux/FOSS developers too...

But you have to agree with me that is not easy for medium to small entreprises, and some large ones to, without "decent" legal departments, to have to take with SCO barking trougth their masters FUD press arrangements, several times a week, every week!

I belive that there were already historys about users trying to pay those licences and SCO somehow refusing!... so its obvious that they only want those freightened entreprises to go buy software somewhere else than Linux... and that is what is completly obnoxious.