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Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO
badzilla and numerous others wrote in with this: "Eric S. Raymond's Open Source site has a new Halloween memo. The Halloween X memo, which ESR says he received by email from an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO, appears to confirm Microsoft's alleged funding of SCO's anti-Linux initiative. And the actual dollar amounts are much larger than previously rumored!" The consultant is discussing his fee for bringing in this business, in the first few lines of the email.
That begs the question... how much would it cost to bury linux?
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If the discovery process yields the original email, Microsoft is fucked.
ESR wasn't very smart. He shouldn't have publish this YET. Give them to IBM lawyers so they know what to look for and what they are fairly certain that they have it among their discovery material, THEN publish it.
SCO's going to be shredding and I hear their email server *just* crashed and its hard drives are going to have to be replaced. All of the archive tapes have suddenly gone bad.
This *could* have been the bomb but ESR probably blew it.
Pragmatism as an ideology is not particularly pragmatic in the long term. Keep it in mind when you dismiss Free Software
Um, you're missing a major point here. This was not Microsoft coming to the rescue. If they wanted to do that, they would have backed SCO openly, or bought them outright. This was under the table.
Well, no *I* get the point just fine that is obvious in the first sentance referring to unfair business practices.
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