Lloyds of London to Offer Open Source Insurance

darkworm writes "Lloyds of London, the world's oldest insurance house, is to offer indemnification for IP litigation worldwide according to the Channel Register: 'Lloyd's of London is close to offering independent insurance protection worldwide against potential IP litigation involving Linux and open source software. The financial services giant has agreed to take on the risk associated with open source, and is finalizing arrangements to work through Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) who will become Lloyd's sole U.S. representative.'"

Comments

But when can we get tiger-attack insurance?

[mcc]

For whatever reason, this is all I can think of right now.

Lisa: By your logic, this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh? How does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around here, do you?
    [pause]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.

Woohoo!

[Norfair]

Free Open-Source insurance! Er, wait, that was free as in beer, right?

Great, nice one

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmph. Just what the FOSS worlds needs; 'protection' from the NWO by a major NWO illuminati player. How gullible are you guys, seriously ?

But then we see IBM promoting FOSS, so whatever the plan it must fit into the agenda.

I imagine the idea is when the entire world population is fitted with chips then Linux will be controlling everybody. How ironic.

Linux has already been corrupted to enslave people by governments and a host of other bad things. Well done people.

P.S. Tac0: your stupid Turing test is riddled with collisons.

Libre, not Gratis

[einhverfr]

Or so I was thinking. I mean, I can modify this insurance and pass it on to anyone else who needs it free of restrictions, right?

Re:Microsoft!

[slashflood]

It was a fsking joke. Asshole mods...

We know, but it wasn't fsking funny...

Just sounds weird

[darthgnu]

I saved a whole bunch on my open source insurrance by switching to Geico