| New businesses spring up to insure Linux against threat of SCO |
Mar. 16, 2004
CNet's Steven Shankland reports that companies are now emerging to help bolster the use of Linux, but also turn a profit because of the threat of the SCO lawsuit. Offering indemnification and software tools that identify offending code are just two of the innovative approaches companies are taking in a quest to minimize the risks some have attached to using Linux. Open Source Risk Management plans to "offer an insurance-like service to pay legal costs if those companies get sued," said the chairman, Daniel Egger. Massachusett-based Black Duck software offers a product to help identify open source and proprietary code, offering a way to ensure outsourced software development does not violate licensing and allaying concerns about using open source software. Read the story.
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