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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Re:Everybody Should Have Invested In SCO

[bersl2]

[Y]ou shouldn't take slashdot seriously for financial news or advice.

You're right. You shouldn't use us for such advice. You should listen to us for advice on code issues. And based on this advice, we can tell you that SCO is full of crap.

I also respect your right to believe in salvation through corporation. It's just that most of us here do not.

Also, if you have a gargantuan trying to kill you---one who has a history of obliterating competition through less-than-licit means---such as Microsoft, you'd be paranoid, scared, and hateful too! After all, we're just humans.

If MS was smart they'd transfer everything to SCO

[Progman3K]

and when other investors, who are only after a bottom line see SCO's stock going up like a rocket, they'll dive in and it'll create a run on SCO stock, pumping it so high that it will start a rally.

In the end MS will have "bought" mainstream acceptance of SCO's slander on Linux by artificially creating a return for the market investors.

Microsoft effectively OWNING Linux simply by progressively changing their name to SCO.

What's the last step? Simple:
Microsoft shelves Linux by making it illegal for anyone to run Linux.

That way MS can keep selling yearly Windows licenses.

Eventually the licenses will be by month.

After that, they'll be like cellular phone minutes.

If they succeed in taking control of the intellectual property that Linux represents, it'll be our worst nightmare: the average man will no longer be allowed to see how technology works, and it will cast us into a dark age.