IBM, Intel Set Up $10m SCO Defense Fund

Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, 2004 @12:59AM from the upping-the-ante dept.

An anonymous reader writes that the "NY Times reports that a group of companies, led by I.B.M. and Intel, plans to announce today that it is setting up a $10 million legal defense fund to help pay for the litigation costs of corporate users of the popular GNU/Linux operating system if they are sued. ZDnet also has a story on this." otisaardvark points out that "The fund is to be administered by OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) and so, amongst other things, could bankroll legal costs for Linus."

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Re:So what will it be? by Eccles · 2004-01-12 08:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Megacorps are EVIL! EVIL I say! And they will bring DOOOM TO US ALL!!!

yes, but even they do not have the power to bring us "Duke Nukem Forever."

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