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OSDL to Cover Torvalds' Legal Bills

OSDL to Cover Torvalds' Legal Bills
By Maureen O'Gara
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November 14, 2003 12:00 AM EST
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The managers of the Open Source Development Lab have been dying to get into the legal scrap with the SCO Group and now that SCO has subpoenaed both OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen and OSDL Fellow and father of Linux Linus Torvalds their wish has come true. As a result, the consortium is about to say that it's going to pick up any legal bills Torvalds or any OSDL employee who gets involved in this fracas might run up.

Published November 14, 2003 – Reads 11,779
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