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Why did Microsoft and Sun support SCO?

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jun 5, 2007

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Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Back in the beginning of SCO’s all-out assault on
Linux and IBM, the Unix company received a much needed financial
boost to its lawsuit plans with two major contracts. These deals
with Microsoft and Sun brought SCO $26.5 million. This money, in
turn, fueled SCO’s lawsuits.”

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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