Novell Offers Linux Users Legal Indemnity

Posted by timothy on Monday January 12, 2004 @01:39PM from the linux-indemnity-is-the-new-black dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Novell today said it intends to indemnify its enterprise Linux users against possible legal action by The SCO Group and/or others. According to eWeek Novell's new Linux Indemnification Program is designed to provide its SUSE Enterprise Linux customers with protection against intellectual-property challenges to Linux and to help reduce the barriers to Linux adoption in the enterprise. Under the terms of the program, Novell will offer indemnification for copyright infringement claims made by third parties against registered Novell customers who obtain SUSE Enterprise Linux 8 after January 13, 2004, upgrade protection and a qualifying technical support contract from Novell or a Novell channel partner."

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what next? -2 not funny at all by tetrahedrassface · 2004-01-12 13:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So now Novelle is offering indemnity to theur Linux customers? What next a colony on the moon?
Re:Yo! by pair-a-noyd · 2004-01-12 13:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

No, really, I'm serious!!
Re:does it seem like.. by cbreaker · 2004-01-12 15:34 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I downloaded SuSE a few weeks ago.

Did they change something?

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Re:does it seem like.. by IANAAC · 2004-01-12 15:50 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Not only that, you can download a small ISO for SUSE 9 that will then continue on with a full ftp install. If you don't want to do an ftp install, download all the files to another server. You can then install via http, NFS or Samba.