A new wrinkle "The new company, Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), set up by lawyer and venture capitalist Daniel Egger, plans to offer standard product liability insurance to major Linux vendors, big corporate users and individual developers of Linux."
"After a rigorous six-month process of examining the individual software files in the Linux kernel and tracing their origins, OSRM found no copyright infringement in kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6," Egger, OSRM's chairman, said in an interview. He was referring to the two most commonly used versions of the Linux operating system." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=580&e=5&u=/nm/20040419/bs_nm/tech_linux_legal_dc ===== Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25" http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
