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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."
I paid $26.4 Million for my Unix License... Now I feel like I got ripped off. Do you think I can ask for a refund?
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
I see an automatic pistol holding a lit cigarette. . .
You are not the customer.
...everyone knows that Microsoft is the savior of all mankind and couldn't possibly have extorted money, doctored evidence, threatened OEM's, coded bugs into Windows to lock out third party software, and other mean and nasty crap.
Without Microsoft, what would we do? Perhaps progress technology forward instead of backward?
After all of this, who could possibly believe that they would funnel money to SCO in order to destroy Linux?
In America, first you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women.
I hope you all at least consider that MSFT paid 16.6 million for the SCO Unix license, just to avoid lawsuits from them, with no "evil plans" againstLinux whatsoever.
Yeah, we considered it. Then we laughed so hard we thought our pants would never dry.
Homer: In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women
If Google embraces firefox, they also embrace:
c om/palm
http://www.google.com/linux
http://www.google.
http://www.google.com/bsd
and
http://www.google.com/microsoft
Aren't you all a bit hot in those tinfoil hats?
- Oisin
PGP KeyId: 0x08D63965
Funny quote of the day (from the article): ""They're[Microsoft] very careful and concerned about not doing anything that's violating their DOJ agreements," Sontag said."
Sorry, the guy who flamed John Carmack in a discussion about video cards has a permanent lock on that title...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Can we throw Karl Rove in there somewhere to give this story the true Slashdot experience?
is there a www.google.com/porn ???
MS: So, Caldera, you say you want to sue us for using your "Unix(tm) IP" in our Windows(r) Services for Unix(r)(tm) Product?
Caldera: Yeah, and we're suing other big bullies too.
MS: What if we give you $6.66 Million dollars for an "intellectual property license", Will that make the law suit go away?
Caldera: Oh yeah! Now you're talking my language.
MS: You say you want to sue other big guys too? If we give you $10 Million more, could you make it IBM and drag Linux in with them?
Caldera: Sure thing boss, where do I sign?
MS: Don't call me that. Sign here, initial here, here and here.
Yes, in blood please.
Wow! I would have figured that they would want to go into a market and get only a little market share. Just like Redhat says in their prospectus how they are only interested in getting a little bit of the Linux market, but no more.
Isn't this called OS X?
I stole this
It looks like they left a couple of words out of this quote in the article:
"They're very careful and concerned about not [getting caught] doing anything that's violating their DOJ agreements," Sontag said. While not commenting specifically, Microsoft didn't deny Sontag's account.
We may experience some slight turbulence and then...explode. -Capt. Mal Reynolds
Google is going to get into trouble. Microsoft has a trademark for a mound on a green landscape.
Aren't you all a bit hot in those tinfoil hats?
Dude, the shiny part goes on the outside!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
They have repeatedly used force, fraud, and intimidation
Are you suggesting that Microsoft is a... TERRORIST?
You may be on to something there.
This comment is fully compliant with RFC 527.
No, I think that it is a sure sign that their search engine is becoming self-aware.
My rights don't need management.
Don't be absurd. Terrorists never donate to Republicans. By definition.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
"The entry page to Microsoft's Web site."
That's the first usable result I've seen from MSN search.
Usually it complains because it fails to find an numeric IP or a name on the LAN.