[justlurking]

I wouldn't want to see the guy thrown in jail. I would simply want him to make restitution. And that's exactly what happened in this case.

Hardly. Again, from the article:

Call me first if you think we have a compliance issue. Let's do a voluntary audit and see what's there. They went right for the gut...

He paid $65,000 in fines, plus $35,000 in legal fees, for a few dozen unlicensed programs that weren't even in use. That is way beyond "restitution".

[B Knotts]

More and more business owners are starting to see the light, though, as this guy did, and move away from Microsoft, and other proprietary software vendors. It has started in the small server arena; now it is moving to larger servers. The next step is the desktop.

Many will tell you that it will never happen, but IMO it is just as inevitable as the selection of the PC over the Mac. Cheaper and "good enough" will always win.