Groklaw: OSRM To Offer Vendor-Neutral Indemnification — FORM

“I had a chance to talk with Daniel Egger, a private equity
investor at Eno River Capital and the Chairman of Open Source Risk
Management (OSRM). OSRM currently offers enterprise end users
advice, training and certification to help mitigate potential
liability exposures associated with the use of free and open source
software. But OSRM is in final preparations to offer comprehensive
vendor-neutral free software/open source insurance, a project
called Free Software and Open Source Risk Management (FORM).

“I have, as you know, issues with indemnification as currently
offered, and I’ve been looking for a workable alternative, some way
to handle corporate demand for protection from nuisance law suits
without damaging all that is precious about free/open source
software and most particularly a method that doesn’t in any way
conflict with the freedoms of the GPL or interfere with the
development process.

“Here is the interview I did with Daniel, in which he explains
his organization’s vendor-neutral alternative. I asked him to
explain how the FORM project will work…”

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