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Microsoft Not Underwriting SCO's Legal Fees?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-pretty-funny dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in to say "Linux Business Week carries this morning a claim that Microsoft only bought a Unix license from SCO Group because there's been a prior development project underway at Redmond that warranted it. "The license was not seen as a way to underwrite SCO's legal fees," says a source within the company. "The idea of getting a SCO license had been under consideration prior to the IBM lawsuit." "

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  1. It sounds better the other way round... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Enough of the conjecture *cough* BULSHIT *cough*

    Cut to the chase already!

  2. Re:So? by sould · · Score: 0, Troll
    There is no way of either truly confirming or denying this.


    Well. I'm sure MS will have plenty of documention from before SCO bought up the whole IP thaaang.


    Thats interesting in enough itself really...

  3. Re:Double speak, or PC speak, call it what you wil by sheldon · · Score: 1, Troll

    What bothers me is not the lie, but the pervasiveness of this sort of attitude.

    Actually the problem here really has nothing to do with Microsoft.

    The problem here is the pervasiveness of the attitude that every action done by Microsoft or any other company is a move to destroy Linux. This attitude is further problematic in that every reasonable explanation is accused of being a lie.

    It makes the "Linux Community" look like a bunch of 2 year old children.