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[News] Xenix as a Microsoft Taxation Weapon and the SCO Proxy

  • Subject: [News] Xenix as a Microsoft Taxation Weapon and the SCO Proxy
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:16:16 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Enterprise Unix Roundup: Ghosts of Xenix Past  

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| Various theories are circulating as to why Microsoft has been so gung-ho 
| about intellectual property enforcement lately. I have opined about it 
| myself in other venues, basically putting forth the theory that the 
| staff at Redmond is running a bit scared right now as they watch Linux 
| slowly encompass the server market. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| The document, submitted in The SCO Group vs. Novell trial, was a letter 
| "that an outside attorney for Santa Cruz sent to the Department of 
| Justice in 1996, complaining about a 1987 agreement between AT&T and 
| Microsoft which [SCO] says it had inherited, with terms such that [SCO] 
| found itself contractually compelled to include outdated Microsoft 
| Xenix code forevermore in all its own Unix products and to pay 
| royalties on the undesired and irrelevant code."
| 
| [...]
| 
| It is not clear if the current incarnation of SCO, The SCO Group, is 
| still entitled to pay Xenix royalties. But Microsoft still does a 
| lot of business with The SCO Group, and if it could ever find a 
| direct line between Xenix and Linux, it would make for a very 
| powerful weapon to kill off Linux once and for all.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3687156


Related:

Deposition of Darl McBride in Novell: Dreaming of Billions From Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| But the SCO dream as I see it is simply this: they'd like those 
| volunteer Linux programmers, who didn't charge one thin dime for 
| their wonderful code, to, in effect, support SCO for life, based 
| on alleged, but not specified, "infringement" that no one is 
| allowed to fix. Does it get lower than that?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070602185104478


The Goldfarb Declaration - Updated: MS Statement

,----[ Quote ]
| According to the Declaration, Richard Emerson was not the only
| Microsoft employee Goldfarb was dealing with in connection with the
| BayStar investment in SCO. He mentions by name two others, from two
| other departments.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061009152706664

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