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HP Offers Linux Purchasers Indemnification

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-on-paper dept.

PnViking writes points out this story in the Detroit News, writing "HP is now covering any claims from SCO if you bought Linux and have a support contract from them: '"We will provide full indemnity across the entire suite for any SCO-related action," said Martin Fink, HP's vice president of Linux. "If (customers) were to get sued by SCO, we would take over their defense and assume liability on their behalf."'" The catch is, you have to be running it on HP equipment ;)

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  1. HPaq equipment... yuck by I8TheWorm · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess the reasoning there is you can't be sued if you can't get the product (HP hardware) to work.

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  2. Man, by Sevn · · Score: 2, Funny

    SCO had better hurry up and think up some sweet smelling bullshit to keep that stock price inflated. News like this will start a tumble. All you people short selling SCO are about to make a bundle.

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  3. Tomorrow's HP news... by jkrise · · Score: 1, Funny

    HP is pleased to inform the world that it is interested in investing in state-of-the-art .Net XML Web Services Technolgies, in partnership with Microsoft....:^) BTW, will they take back Bruce Perens?

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  4. Whats the deal with this Shanghai Cooperation Org? by sela · · Score: 0, Funny


    Could someone please tell me what's the deal with this Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and why do they threat to sue Linux? I thought the commies love Linux, why are they suing it all of a sudden?

    I'm sooooooo confusied.

    (And got Karma to burn ;-)

  5. bwah? by TheGreatOrangePeel · · Score: 1, Funny

    "HP Offers Linux Purchasers Indemnification" Damnit. Now I have to visit dictionary.com. I hope this isn't an indication about the rest of my day... ..." 1. The act of indemnifying. 2. The condition of being indemnified." great. that was helpful.

  6. Variety is the spice of life by GoofyBoy · · Score: 3, Funny


    A /. article about SCO first thing in the morning? What a welcome change!

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  7. In other news . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    HP promises to indemnify any and all Earth creatures in the event an asteroid crashes into our planet and completely destroys it - which is about as likely to happen as SCO winning a lawsuit against a Linux user.