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The Microsoft/SCO Connection
rocketjam writes "CNET is running a long question-and-answer format article which takes an in-depth look at the relationship between Microsoft and SCO and the financial support SCO has received both directly and indirectly from Microsoft in their ongoing litigation alleging that Linux violates the intellectual property rights they claim to hold on UNIX. The article details the money Microsoft has paid to SCO to "license" UNIX as well as the role they played in BayStar's $50 million investment in SCO in late 2003. Microsoft paid SCO $16.6 million for a UNIX license. The only other company that has come close to paying SCO that much money for a license is Sun, who paid $9.3 million to license UNIX for their Solaris operating system."
Shhh...don't wake up the dictatorship. The Bushies don't like people that make waves.
On the other hand, Linux is a potential legal minefield, Windows is dangerous and Solaris is too hard to understand.
Yeah, but at least our mice can right-click! Ooooooo...
Wow, if 100 years from now history books mention Slashdot, and they include one single comment indicitive of everything it represented, this one will be it. We have 'supprised', 'M$', uninformed (and assinine) opinions, and the belief that the poster himself has more knowledge about how to run one of the biggest companies around than the people who are doing it. The only thing that could really be improved in the post is if squoozer had written 'Winbloze' or something like it instead of 'Windows'.
I don't recall spouting drivel about how Linux is going to 0wn M$, because M$ is teh suck, and Linux makes the baby Jeebus smile.
I'm surprised you didn't accuse me of astroturfing for M$, because nobody would dare say anything positive about M$ unless they were being paid to, right?
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