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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-like-big-rebuttals-and-i-can-not-lie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Blake Stowell, SCO's director of communications, acknowledged that the leaked memo is real." However, Stowell went on to say that the memo was misunderstood, and that Microsoft has not been funding SCO, as was previously alleged. In addition, Computer Associates is now vehemently denying they ever licensed Linux from SCO. AlabamaMike writes "Being employed by Computer Associates myself, I had to admit I was terribly dismayed by the news that the company I work for had licensed SCO's dubious Linux IP. I sent some mail around to those I thought would have some info about what was going on with this very odd move, and the response that came back truly should be posted for the /. community. Basically this is a very creative spin on a settlement CA did with Canopy Group regarding a breach of contract settlement totally unrelated to Linux. Associated with that settlement was a set of UnixWare licenses to which SCO has taken the liberty of attaching these 'Linux IP' licenses."

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  1. Re:Who Cares? by HeridFel · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not for long. I'll get right on it.

  2. Re:Speak the truth brother Linus.. by meadowsp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "If someone else killed him, I would feel like partying, wouldn't you?"

    No, not really. Civilised people don't celebrate murder.

  3. Re:*bangs head on desk* by rixstep · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In the end we would end up with essentially a monopoly in computer operating systems.

    What the hell you think we got now, boy?

    LOL

  4. /. Mobs... by Some+Clown · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    God I love the mentality on Slashdot. An article comes out with a relatively redundant memo re: Microsoft's involvement with SCO, and CA laying the retorical bitch-slap on SCO, and what does the mob here fixate on? Hmmm... lesse, could it be, Microsoft? For #@$ sake people, there could be a comet streaking towards the earth, about to destroy humanity, and somehow the majority of the tin-foil-hat-wearing-we-hate-Microsoft crowd would find a way to blame them.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of Microsoft or any other software company for that matter. It's just funny to see the pavlov-like response here when that one word is thrown out.

    "Microsoft"

    Hmmm... just testing.

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