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Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition?

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. And the sad thing is ... by johnburton · · Score: 1, Troll

    The sad thing is that they may well turn out to be using even more illegally licensed software now if sco manage to actually win.

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  2. Re:More raids please by paganizer · · Score: 1, Troll

    Installing XP in a production environment? you must be flippin' insane.
    Win2k pro, NT4 workstation, even win2k3 (Insane, but not beyond redemption), but XP?

    I shudder when I think about it.

    FREENET=FREESPEECH (Even if it is kind of busted right now)

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  3. Linux? by Transcendent · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well he won't pay microsoft a penny... but the SCO might hit him even harder.