[ Thanks to RobW
for this link. ]
“Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory. The only thing better
than hearing one is concocting a scurrilous story and watching it
bounce around.“Perhaps this was what an IBM executive had in mind the other
day when he stood on a Queensland stage to declare ‘a Redmond
company’ (Microsoft) as the mastermind behind a $US3 billion ($4.6
billion) lawsuit his company faces from SCO Group, which alleges
copyright breaches in the Linux code.“Al Zollar said there was a ‘set of forces’ at work to put Linux
in a coffin and SCO’s claim that its code had been stolen was
‘silly’–an intellectual argument one step up from ‘just
because’“Of course, there is nothing silly about the situation. This is
a high-stakes game…”
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Australia: IBM Claims SCO Conspiring with Microsoft over
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