ZDnet: Open-Source Guru Claims Proof of Microsoft/SCO Link

[Atlant]

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39148064,00.htm

Open-source guru claims
proof of MS-SCO link

Matthew Broersma
ZDNet UK

A document allegedly leaked from within SCO Group suggests financial
backing from Microsoft that goes much further than previously thought

An open-source group has published what appears to be a memo leaked
from within SCO Group, which, if genuine, would point to a much more
extensive financial relationship between Microsoft and SCO than has
previously been known.

The memo suggests that Microsoft had a hand in a $50m (£27m)
investment in SCO by venture capital firm BayStar Capital, something
previously denied by BayStar. The document also says Microsoft
directly or indirectly supplied SCO with more than $30m in other
funding.

The memo appears to be a 12 October, 2003, message from Mike Anderer,
of strategic consultants S2, to Chris Sontag, vice president and
general manager of SCOsource, which is SCO's effort to reap revenues
from its Unix intellectual property. SCO's chief financial officer
Bob Bench is listed as a "cc" recipient. It was published on
Wednesday on the Web site of the Open Source Initiative (OSI),
a non-profit group that promotes open-source software.

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[Atlant]

1. Here's the memo...

http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html

[sendero]

2. Gates...

... is scared sh*tless of Linux, as well he should be.

Can't lie, cheat and steal your way out of this one, can you Billy Boy?

[mhr]

3. Use Linux Mandrake Daily - Works Great!

eom

[DK666]

6. Except When

The stupid Windows gateway to my network fails.

[Voltaire99]

4. Posting from OS X and laughing at Gates!

To those still running Windows: you'll be happy dropping that virus-plagued turd!

[bemildred]

5. Second that.

SCO was, in my experience, a really crappy version of Unix,
sort of a crippled SVR4, so it's hard to feature wanting to
steal something from it. But in any case, Windoze is for games,
and not much else.

[htuttle]

7. "a crippled SVR4"

That's kind of redundant, isn't it?

:evilgrin:

[bemildred]

8. No worse than say "very very crippled".

Redundancy just adds emphasis.
:-)