[PLUG] MS and SCO

[Ron Braithwaite]

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David Pool wrote:
| I didn't subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, so this is a second hand
| post. Has anyone else spotted this? It's a bit worrisome.
|
| david
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|
|  From NewsScan:
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| MICROSOFT SCOOPS UP UNIX LICENSE FROM SCO
| Microsoft is buying the rights to SCO Group's Unix technology for an
| undisclosed amount, in a move that will bolster SCO's controversial
| campaign to demand royalties from users of the Linux operating software,
| which SCO claims infringes on its Unix patents. Linux supporters have
| demanded that SCO identify which parts of the code are duplicative,
but SCO
| says that doing that would allow programmers to cover up their
| transgressions by rewriting the software. "That's like saying, 'show
us the
| fingerprints on the gun so you can rub them off,'" says SCO CEO Darl
| McBride. Microsoft, which competes fiercely with both Linux and Unix, at
| the same time has been a long-time backer of SCO and some in the Linux
| community have speculated the software giant is secretly bankrolling SCO's
| litigation to reduce the Linux threat. A Microsoft spokeswoman denied that
| rumor. (Wall Street Journal 19 May 2003)
| http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB105329732841072600.djm,00.html (sub
| req'd)
|

Yeah, I saw it in my NYT email.

I don't M$ gives a rat's patootie about any IP in that code. It is there
way of funding SCO os they can continue their FUD campaign against
Linux. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that SCO started this
off then hustled M$ for buchs to help spread the FUD around.

- -Ron
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