OSDL Pays For Linus Torvalds' SCO Defense

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday November 14, 2003 @03:51AM from the man-this-sucks dept.

geoff313 writes " For all of you who might be worried about what financial consequences Linus Torvalds might have to endure as a result of being subpoenaed by SCO, fear not: the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) will pay for its law firm to represent him. the OSDL, who are Torvalds' employer, will announce on Friday that the "OSDL has agreed to fund legal representation for Torvalds and any other employees of the lab who may become involved in the litigation." Just in case you didn't you didn't know, the OSDL is funded by a variety of corporations including (but not limitied to) IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, Cisco, Computer Associates, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Nokia. "

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Sad.... by starmang · 2003-11-14 03:54 · Score: 1, Troll

Yah cause i was having trouble sleeping at night thinking of where Linus was going to get money from.

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What have we learned today, class? by Ride-My-Rocket · 2003-11-14 04:09 · Score: 0, Troll

McBride is what is known in the poker world as a fish. Which is to SCO's great misfortune because penguins literally eat fish for breakfast.

Yes, but do penguins also play poker, as your statment seems to imply?