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Microsoft Behind SCO Cash Investment?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the conspiracy-theory dept.

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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  1. Microsoft is Satan. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux is God.

  2. frstpst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    frstpst

    1. Re:frstpst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey idiot, didn't you see my fp? The one about the nads? You're pathetic.

  3. MS == good! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's hope they are.

  4. nouch my tads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    LP

  5. Everybody Should Have Invested In SCO by Pave+Low · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.

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  6. Check list by m00nun1t · · Score: 0, Troll

    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

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  7. WRH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    slashdot is becoming more and more like whatreallyhappened.com everyday.

  8. Re:Bob McGrath? by Temporal · · Score: 0, Troll

    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?

  9. Linux is destructing American software industry by habor · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think there is a lot of support for SCO's case. Not because they are right. The bigger problem is China and other countries in Asia.China is a very big marketplace for all software compagnies in the US. If China are developing there own softwareindustry with help of Open Source there is no market anymore for Sun, HP or Microsoft. The same you can say about the Europe goverments.Open Source is destructing for a big part of the American software industry Look at the problem with this perspective and you can understand why Linux has to die. Don't understand me wrong. I'm a very big supporter of Open Source Software.

  10. Hello kid ! by Krapangor · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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