Microsoft Behind SCO Cash Investment?

An anonymous reader writes "eWEEK has got a story up suggesting Microsoft may be behind yesterday's $50mil cash investment in SCO. 'As an investment firm, BayStar leads, creates and participates in a number of PIPEs (Private Investments in Public Equity). Many of these deals involve investment money from other companies, including Microsoft.'"

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Everybody Should Have Invested In SCO

[Pave Low]

Looks like a lot of people have been interested in investing in SCO. So enough with the baseless accusation that Microsoft is the puppet master or something. Doesn't the hatred ever get old?

More proof you shouldn't take slashdot seriously for financial news or advice.

Check list

[m00nun1t]

Tin foil hat on? Check
Copy of Catcher in the Rye? Check
CIA agents in hollywood list? Check
Groundless rumours that MS is funding SCO? Check

Re:Bob McGrath?

[Temporal]

I'm not exactly a Windows fan, but this joke would be funnier if it had any basis in reality. Win32 Platform SDK says:

pipe()
CreatePipe()
CreateNamedPipe()

Also, the | operator works on the DOS command line (and has worked since before Windows was created). So, where did you get the idea that Microsoft doesn't support pipes?

Hello kid !

[Krapangor]

You see, there is something called copyright which means that you actually have to pay for source code and software if the owner doesn't give it to you for free.
It's well known that MS uses Unix stuff in it's operating systems - the BSD TCP/IP stack for instance.
And these 21$ million might seem much to you but for a company with such huge revenues like MS these are just peanuts.
If you finish you education some day and get a job in big business, you'll see that such stuff are really minor contracts.