SCO and Linux Adoption: Helping or Hindering?

The Register: SCO Case Doesn't Slow Linux Take-up

"Threatened legal action from SCO has failed to slow the take-up of Linux, according to a panel of experts at the Linux Users and Developers Conference.

"The Big Linux Debate on the last day of the conference in London, Olympia brought together eight open source evangelists and one man from Microsoft..."

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ZDNet UK: SCO Legal Fight 'Hampering' Adoption of Linux in Government

"SCO's legal assault on Linux could seriously affect the take-up of open-source software by UK government agencies, according to one of Britain's most tech-savvy MPs, who was attending the Linux User and Developer Expo 2004 in London

"Richard Allan MP, the Liberal Democrat IT spokesman, warned on Wednesday that uncertainty over SCO's claim that Linux infringes its Unix copyrights will deter some public-sector employees from breaking away from proprietary software..."

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