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Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @11:39PM from the minus-the-piracy-bit dept.

fr0z writes " Ernie Ball is a company that makes guitar strings. After being raided by the BSA in 2000 without warning and fined $100,000 for a few unlicensed copies of software, CEO Sterling Ball vowed not to give another cent to Microsoft and within 6 months, according to CNET News, had the whole company switched to Red Hat Linux, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla, and other free software."

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Re:Oh, the irony of it.... by 13Echo · 2003-08-21 02:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

Blaster can't reproduce on NT4 machines, even though they are effected by the worm. Only 2000/XP machines are capable of propagating the virus (according to Symantec).