The Inquirer: SCO Acts as Microsoft Shill to Attack Linux

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"In case you have had your head in the proverbial sand, over the past week, the already listing SCO case had the air let out of it. The whiney leak you heard when Eric Raymond published the Halloween X memo suddenly turned into a big flappy farty sound. Mike Anderer, the 'brains' behind the MS 'not investment' into MS spilled the beans.

"I say 'not' in quotes because it wasn't a direct investment on MS's behalf. A few people working for MS happened to call up Baystar and suggest that they put a ton of money into SCO. Note the phrase 'senior executives' not senior executive in the BusinessWeek article here. This says to me that either several high up MS people suddenly decided that Baystar should invest in SCO, and the Baystar people were just to myopic to see it on their own, or it was a coordinated MS plan. If you think it was sheer luck, you simply have not been paying attention, and you should have someone else tell you when it is safe to cross a street, you might miss a bus coming at you, flashing its lights, honking its horn, at noon, while you are sober.

"No, the amazing part about this is they, and I mean SCO, Anderer, MS and all the others not yet outed, thought they could keep it a secret. When you are dealing with brainchildren like Sontag and Darl here, you expect them to be stupid, but as Halloween X points out, they put it in print, in a way that it could be discovered easily...!"

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