Some Linux Users Violate Sarbanes-Oxley

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 19, 2006 @07:18AM from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

Goyuix writes "According to the IT Observer, publicly owned companies who are using Linux, could be violating the federal securities laws as part of Sarbanes-Oxley. The article goes on to say that companies are required to "disclose ownership of intellectual property to their shareholders." How are these companies supposed to really list out all the IP owners if they were to install a full desktop or server environment - there could be literally thousands of parties listed! What are the current Fortune 500 companies doing, as many of those use Linux in one form or another?" update several people have pointed out that this is about companies who are violating the GPL, not everyone.

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Re:Not just Linux by tomhudson · 2006-01-19 08:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This also means that any company that runs Windows is also in violation, unless they get full disclosure from Microsoft on all tech Microsoft has licensed/stolen/whatever.
More fud from team99 is my guess. Boy are the MS shills desperate.