Hat engineer talks enterprise Linux
Wednesday, 28 January 2004 21:00 EST
Red Hat Inc. joined the growing number of server makers and Linux distributors that are offering some sort of financial protection for its customers against legal action by the SCO Group last week prior to LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. In this interview, Red Hat vice president of engineering Brian M. Stevens talked to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about the distributor's new Open Source Assurance program, the addition of a server provisioning module to its Red Hat Network, the 2.6 kernel and the SCO lawsuit.
Why not offer indemnification rather than the protection offered by the Open Source Assurance program?
Brian M. Stevens: We felt indemnification would not be the right answer. It's a warranty service. We provide the assurances that if somebody adopts Linux, if there are issues in the future, those issues would be resolved. That's something that we're in a great position to be able to do with the development team we have.
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