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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