"Blake Stowell, SCO's director of communications, acknowledged that the leaked memo is real.
"But, Stowell claimed that pundits had mischaracterized the memo's context. 'We believe the e-mail was simply a misunderstanding of the facts by an outside consultant who was working on a specific unrelated project to the BayStar transaction and he was told at the time of his misunderstanding. Contrary to the speculation of Eric Raymond, Microsoft did not orchestrate or participate in the BayStar transaction...'"
