The Proposed MOU, as text
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| But aside from that, I analyze it like this: Who benefits from this move?
| Aside from the privacy elements, whereby the SCO ship sinks in a private pond
| with no worry about piercing the corporate veil, since there is money in this
| plan to pay Novell and others, there is the avoidance of any antitrust
| worries Microsoft might conceivably face from airing of linen. But I think
| it's more about holding on to business. The military is switching to Linux.
| That's a huge loss to Microsoft, of course, but it's also a huge loss to
| companies that supply services and proprietary software applications to the
| military. Some folks might not like that the switch to Linux is happening. It
| will be worse for them if other government agencies and entities decide to
| follow the DOD's lead.
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| What to do? What to do? Maybe at least slow down the process by putting Linux
| under a legal cloud of uncertainty, at a minimum, at least for several more
| years, and/or under a financial burden, at best, should they prevail?
|
| [...]
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| If Microsoft is behind the deal, though, I do think it raises legitimate
| antitrust concerns. Whether anyone will care, since it's all cloaked in IP
| claims, is another story. If I were Novell or IBM or any creditor, I'd very
| much want some proof that Stephen Norris Capital Partners really has $100
| Milllion. I'd want the court to make them escrow it.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080215072706542
Yesterday:
And so it continues…
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| Not surprisingly people are already trying to work out where the money leads
| to. Groklaw reckons its found a link to Bill Gates via Prince Al-Waleed bin
| Talal Al Saud. Dana Blankenhorn isn’t convinced.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/02/15/and-so-it-continues/
Related:
SCO goes private, gets $100M to keep going, McBride out?
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| According to the same release, Stephen Norris, managing partner for SNCP,
| claims that SNCP has a business plan for SCO "that will enable the company to
| see SCO's legal claims through to their full conclusion."
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7409634929.html
Did Microsoft ruin SCO?
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| Which comes to the scenario in mind. Gates approaches McBride and puts forth
| a proposition that SCO should try and make money out of Linux. He offers to
| bankroll the operation in a backhanded manner and then steps back to watch
| the action unfold. His reasoning for doing this? To have a test run before he
| puts Microsoft through the same paces. Either way he wins.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/did-microsoft-ruin-sco-19663
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| "We've moved past the ideology," said Sutor, in Salt Lake City
| Thursday to attend graduation ceremonies at Neumont University."
| Many people have figured out that there are a number of ways tom
| ake money from the 'open source' model."
|
| [...]
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| The litigation has been characterized as part of a proxy war being
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| waged by Microsoft against Linux, seen as a prime challenger to
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| Windows. Microsoft has been a prime funding source for SCO, but
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| earlier this month stunned open-sourcers by announcing a development
| pact for Novell's Suse-brand of Linux.
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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4679245?source=rss
Another Indirect Link is Found Between Microsoft and Acacia (Patent Troll That
Attacks Linux)
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| It turns out that BayStar was one of the investors in Acacia Research
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http://boycottnovell.com/2007/10/21/baystar-acacia/
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