[ Thanks to David for this link.
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“Whether or not Microsoft is secretly bankrolling the SCO Group
for more than $100 million to attack Linux and the general open
source community through questionable intellectual property
lawsuits, NewsForge has learned that U.S. federal regulators may
have begun investigating the relationship between the two companies
— and may also be looking closely at a number of other people and
companies connected to them through stock or other business
transactions.“Although the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) never
officially makes public when it investigates an organization, an
SEC staff member told NewsForge that complaints and tips about
suspected under-the-table funding, stock-kiting, illegal insider
trading, and money-laundering involving Microsoft or
Microsoft-connected individuals to the financially struggling SCO
Group have been coming into the agency with regularity since last
August. The SEC ‘does not take such complaints lightly,’ the source
said…”