On Tue, 06 May 2008 05:22:32 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Microsoft hires SCO veteran as its Competitive Strategy guru
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> | IBM and others have shredded Gupta's work for SCO, and a judge
> couldn't throw | it out fast enough.
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> | Gupta may be a great person, but he's not a UNIX, Linux, or Windows
> expert. | Perhaps that's just what Microsoft wants? After all, SCO once
> said of Gupta | that "he is able to laser-focus on product
> deliverables." If half-truths in | the interest of competitive strategy
> are what Microsoft wants in terms of | deliverables, Microsoft couldn't
> do better than to pull in the SCO team. |
> | Disappointing. Shame on you, Microsoft. `----
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> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9936449-16.html?
part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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> Sandy Gupta Shows Up - Working at Microsoft - Updated
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> | Guess where Sandeep Gupta landed after he left SCO? If I put a
> blindfold on | you and told you to point on the map, you'd still guess
> Microsoft, wouldn't | you? And you'd be right. From January, that is
> where he found a soft landing, | as Director, Technical Competitive
> Strategy of the Server & Tools Division. |
> | [...]
> |
> | This was back in 2004. They may think we all forgot, but Groklaw never
> | forgets. And if I need to remind you, the SCO v. IBM case is yet to
> be | tried. So Microsoft has hired Gupta midstream. |
> | Here's what another famous computer expert, Brian W. Kernighan, said
> after | reviewing Gupta's work:
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> | Furthermore, in places, Mr. Gupta's conclusions of similarity
> depend on | his selecting isolated lines of code from disparate
> places and putting | them together as if contiguous blocks of code
> were involved (which they | are not) and important differences did
> not exist (which they do). |
> | So. You may draw your own conclusions as to why he is being rewarded
> with a | plum position at Microsoft after a performance so stunningly
> rebutted. Mine | is that he knows too much and that he fits in
> perfectly. `----
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> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080505113024239
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> Recent:
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> Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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> | If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it
> be? |
> | Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux,
> certainly have | to go with that.
> `----
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> http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-
Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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> Microsoft's SEC:
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> | A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating
> system... | To the extent open source software gains increasing market
> acceptance, sales | of our products may decline, we may have to reduce
> the prices we charge for | our products, and revenue and operating
> margins may consequently decline. `----
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> http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
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> Related:
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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." |
> | [...]
> |
> | The litigation has been characterized as part of a proxy war being |
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | 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 |
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | 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
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> 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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Hey, Enron, SCO, Microsoft, all feathers of the same sick flea infested
bird. Duuuuuuh......chirp.
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