The San Francisco Chronicle reports how the SCO lawsuits have made companies much more cautious about proclaiming their reliance on Linux.
It used to be that companies couldn't talk enough about using the free Linux operating system, and how much money it was saving them.
No more.
Silence fell when Utah's SCO Group, a small company that claims parts of Linux are derived from software it owns, sued IBM, other vendors that sell Linux packaged with support and, most recently, Linux users DaimlerChrysler AG and AutoZone Inc. . . .
Because dozens of other companies have similar copyright claims to various versions of Unix, experts expect more suits like SCO's to come along, especially if SCO is successful.
The article also discusses indemnification/insurance and the other ways companies are responding to SCO lawsuits.