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NewsForge: Company’s Open Source Dedication Questioned

“Last week, a NewsForge article about Dallas-based OSI Hosting
discussed the company’s goal of being a Web hosting provider
dedicated to open source. However, it appears OSI may be guilty of
the same indirect SCO support its founder criticized in that
article, since OSI’s own servers are currently being hosted through
EV1, which paid for a Linux license from SCO.

“OSI Hosting founder and CEO Jason Macer conceded that ‘in a
way, yes,’ the company was being hypocritical in billing itself as
dedicated to open source while it was using Linux boxes licensed
through SCO…”

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