:LinuxInsider: OSRM Chairman Daniel Egger on Open-Source Insurance
LinuxInsider: OSRM Chairman Daniel Egger on Open-Source Insurance Jun 4, 2004, 02 :30 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (5046 reads) (Other stories by Kirk L. Kroeker)
"Open Source Risk Management, the first and only vendor-neutral provider of open-source risk mitigation and coordinated legal defense services, recently certified the Linux kernel as free of source code that could provide a basis for meritorious copyright infringement claims. After a six-month process of examining the individual software files in the Linux kernel and tracing their origins, OSRM found no copyright infringement in Linux kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6. As a result, OSRM offers clients legal protection against copyright litigation for those versions of the kernel.
"'We decided to go straight to the heart of the matter and evaluate whether we could defend the Linux kernel,' said Daniel Egger, founder and chairman of OSRM. 'We determined that we can; and we will. Our clients will receive legal protection equal to, if not beyond, what they receive with proprietary software licenses...'"
