Linux users to MS: What 'balance sheet liability'?

21.11.2006

"We don't offer indemnification because customers rarely, if ever, ask for it," an IBM spokesman said.

Either way, "Linux' success tends to suggest that buyers for the most part don't look on Linux as something risky," Haff said.

And Microsoft's assertions might be even backfire. "There were some applications I had been thinking about moving to a Microsoft platform, but this has now totally alienated me from Microsoft," Strasnick said.