ZDNet Australia: Linux Expands in Australasia–Helped by SCO Suit

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 3, 2003

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“The publicity generated by the SCO lawsuit hasn’t hurt Linux
distributor Red Hat’s plans to expand business in Australasia–in
fact, it seems to have helped, said a senior executive.

“‘It has helped opened a lot more doors. People don’t understand
what’s going on and that gives us opportunity to explain,’ said
Harish Pillay, the U.S.-based firm’s chief technology architect for
the region.

“And in Australia, the company claims that they have not lost a
single piece of business due to the legal wrangling over the
alleged copying of Unix code into the open source Linux operating
system…”


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