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SF Chronicle: Lawsuits change approach to Linux: Companies more cautious about use of open source

Companies large and small are still deploying new open-source projects just as rapidly as ever, say Cohen and other Linux watchers. Linux and other free programs have just become too big a part of business to abandon, with big hardware vendors selling servers preloaded with Linux and companies like Oracle Corp. pushing Linux as the best foundation on which to run its database software.

They're just doing it more quietly and more cautiously. They're also using more lawyers.

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