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The Rise of the FOSS Spinmeister

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Sam Varghese
Jan 28, 2008

“In August 2003, a little more than three months after the SCO
Group had filed a lawsuit against IBM, seeking damages for alleged
breach of contract, I had an email exchange with Blake Stowell, who
was then the public relations manager of the former company.

“Having sent Stowell a detailed email asking him whether SCO
planned to sue other Linux companies and received a reply in the
negative, I went ahead and wrote a story. This, after I had asked
Stowell a number of questions in context…”

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Sam Varghese

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