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“I saw this: ‘While SCO waits for the results of its bid to sue
the industry for Linux royalties’ and reflected about Microsoft and
Linux. Microsoft reportedly funded SCO’s Linux law suit against
IBM. It has agreed to pay Novell over $400 million out of which
Novell will pay up to $40 million over five years to prevent Novell
SuSE Linux customers being sued by Microsoft for unauthorised
Microsoft intellectual property use. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
has reportedly said he’s willing to do a similar deal with Red
Hat.

“Do we detect a pattern here? Is Microsoft getting rattled by
Linux? Is Microsoft worried about the Oracle re-use of Red Hat
Linux…?”


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