on Sun 17 Dec 2006 16:22 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
"Niall: OK. Two questions. 1. Was Microsoft ever directly involved with
the SCO Group in their lawsuit against IBM, either through BayStar
Capital or others?"
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"Bill: I don't know BayStar .. I don't know anything about it. Is SCO
still around? Are they still viable?"
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Well back in May 2003 your company appariently 'bought' a Unix license
from SCO just after they announced they were sueing IBM for
'misappropriation of trade secrets'. In Oct of that year BayStar
'invested' $50 million in the company on the request of Richard Emerson
a VP of your company. Strange you don't remember this as IBM has
subpoenaed your company in regards to the Baystar connection.
"In addition, I had discussions with Kenneth Lustig, Microsoft's
managing director of intellectual property and Tivanka Ellawala .. I
met with Darl McBride of SCO ..We also discussed SCO's lawsuit with
David Boies", Lawrence R. Goldfarb
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From: Mike Anderer
To: Chris Sontag
Date: Oct 12 2003
'Microsoft also indicated there was a lot more money out there and they
would clearly rather use Baystar '
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"Sometime in 2003, I was approached by Richard Emerson (Microsoft's
senior vice president for corporate development and stratedy) about
investing in SCO .. Microsoft wanted to further its interest through
independent investors like BayStar",
Lawrence R. Goldfarb,
Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager of the BayStar Funds,
LRG Capital Group
http://www.linux.org/news/sco/timeline.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150880/ibm-subpoenas-microsoft-sun-hp
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061009152706664
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/ef3f9ef746357d8f?hl=en&;
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