Web Hosting Industry Review: EV1Servers Underestimated Reaction

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"Web hosting firm EV1Servers' (ev1servers.net) decision to pay the SCO licensing fee has been misinterpreted, and EV1 would never intentionally harm the open source movement, EV1Servers CEO Robert Marsh told theWHIR yesterday.

"'This is a very difficult issue for us,' Marsh said. 'It is a huge disappointment to us that we would be thrown in the same bucket, so to say, with the SCO Group. We didn't make any admission that their IP was used in Linux. Our public position is certainly not to support that, and our intent was simply to take us out of the loop, not to make us public enemy number one...'"

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