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Intellectual Property Protection Expanded for Our Customers

Companies understand the importance of protecting themselves from legal risk. Many have asked Microsoft about ways to reduce their risk of being caught in the middle of an intellectual property legal dispute.

Microsoft offers a strong intellectual property indemnification policy for end-user customers. The same cannot be said for Linux and open source software vendors.

Full details at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/indemnification/default.mspx
Published Monday, November 15, 2004 9:24 PM by sluper

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Peter da Silva said:

You have forgotten that there is no credible scenario in which customers would actually be liable for damages purely for using Linux or other open source operating systems. You also appear to have forgotten about Novell: for the few customers who buy into your scare story, there is Suse. For the rest of us, there is the fact that there are multiple independent implementations of the OS, and that the worst that could happen is that we may need to switch to Suse at some point.

And switching from one open source UNIX to another is less risky than switching from one release of Windows to the next.
November 15, 2004 9:52 PM
 

Black Fox said:

Yes Linux doesn't have billions of avocates who are trying bo prove that they'r usefull by attacking peoples...
But it's not a bug, it's a feature !
November 16, 2004 1:04 PM
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