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.

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Typical RMS FUD

[merdark]

The mail does not at all indicate that Microsoft "raised money for SCO's anti-linux campaign". All it shows is that Microsoft has *referred* some *other* companies to SCO, who then bought from SCO on their own.

Microsoft themselves also licensed much of SCO's ip, and have been doing so long before this "anti-linux" campaign started. This letter is typical of large business relationships.

Nothing to see here except more biased opinions from RMS.