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RedHat Starts "Open Source Now" Fund

Posted by Hemos on from the fight-for-the-right-to-code dept.

celston23 writes "According to this article (near bottom), RedHat is intending to use their Open Source Now Fund to support open-source (GPL) developers who are sued for copyright infringement. Might be used during the SCO legal battle."

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  1. EFF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why is this necessary when we have the EFF?

  2. 503C status? by Hayzeus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I may have missed this on the home page, but is OSN a 503C non-profit?

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  3. Mixed feelings. by stephenry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Though it's great that somebody is willing to step up and offer legal protection to Linux, the kind that Microsoft are readily willing for the lack thereof. How will this help?

    Take a look at SCO. For the last couple of months they have been spouting nonsense, slander and let's be honest FUD. In fact, in the face of the current IBM countersuit, they have the gall (read: stupidity) to launch another claim.

    Now, all this is quite illegal, as IBM's lawyers have pointed out, but has it stopped SCO? No, not until 2005, at least. Until that time, SCO can say and do as it more-or-less pleases, until an injunction anyways. They will nodoubt reep the rewards for there behaviour, but that doesn't stop the damage they're causing in the meantime, until the courts get around to dealing with it.

    Reason, let alone a cadre of Open Source Funded lawyers won't stop SCO. That's just the way it is.

  4. Re:Why not just relinquish SCO's license by Ktulu_03 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Linus owns the copyright to the word "Linux", right? Could he revoke their right to use the word "Linux" in any of their products?

    I apologize if this is already well-known information.

  5. "open-source (GPL)"? by Fweeky · · Score: 4, Interesting

    GPL is Free Software(R) -- Open source is a conciderably wider target than that. A quick look over the site doesn't show anything GPL-specific, just Linux-specific. BSDers need love too!