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Businesses that self want to protect against lawsuits about intellectual property can better molars for Microsoft, concludes a study of IDC. Or that protection really necessary is, let the investigation desk in the middle.

Microsoft fences offers in her antiLinuxcampagne 'Get the Facts' with a study of IDC, from which appeared must that the business from Redmond a better protection of intellectual property then Linux and other open source software. Microsoft promises be accused or condemned to put end users schadeloos as they ever to make for an infringement on intellectual property through use by Microsofts software.

The study remains before neutral about the interest of such protection for customers. Aside from the legal stab game between SCO, IBM and single Linux-users, its such lawsuits before rare, admits the report. “Look at this for what it is - someone else strategy,” write the IDC-analysts. “As customers such approach considerably find, will they to that act.”

In her 'Get the Facts' -campaign lays Microsoft quite strongly the emphasis on the legal protection that the bedrjf offers. In November last year breidde Microsoft this protection from to almost all customers, something till then ankle reServer was for large buyers. The softwaregiant let want to fall also the financile.

Martin Taylor, responsibly for platform strategy By Microsoft, said that legal liability an increasing source of anxiety is for customers. “It hangs of it off how considerably they this find and how many risks they want to take”, declared Taylor.

Hewlett-Packard and Novell offer some Linux-customers also a liability insurance on, but as source Microsoft as anaylisten point on it that this protection not so far goes as that of Microsoft.

Ina Fried, News. com