Looking for Indemnification While Linux Sales Double (O'ReillyNet)

Looking for Indemnification While Linux Sales Double (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Jun 30, 2004 16:29 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Looking for Indemnification While Linux Sales Double (O'ReillyNet) by allesfresser
Parent article: Looking for Indemnification While Linux Sales Double (O'ReillyNet)

Reading the article, it seems clear to me that the "legal" risk is litigation, not damages. Nobody believes that SCO could possibly win anything, but there's the risk that users will have to respond to a lawsuit. It sounds like "there's a psychopath out there targetting Linux users; here's what you should do to protect yourself" rather than saying that there's anything actually wrong with using Linux.

The thing I find strange about the article is that it implies that Linux is low-cost. While there are low-cost and no-cost Linux solutions, the server space where the growth is is largely high-end servers, where the purchase prices are upwards of $50K and the operating system is not a separate item. You can easily spend $100K on a system which wouldn't run without Linux. Obviously, you want protection for the system as a whole, and that protection has to cover the operating system.

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