[H-GEN] Interesting Trivia

Frank Brand fbrand at uq.net.au
Fri Jul 17 07:31:32 EDT 1998


An interesting snippet I came across. Maybe you have seen it maybe not.

Martin Jackson gave his opinion that the important information in
this ZDNet piece was almost buried. It mentions the comment from
one manager of an unnamed "Very Big Company" who said his company "would
never put their accounting system on an OS from somebody that they
cannot sue--and get something." This is not so much a Linux-issue as a
frightening comment on the priorities of American business. For an
alternate viewpoint, consider that moving to open source software could
have the side effect of reducing corporate litigation ... 
-- 
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
Homepage: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand




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