Microsoft dirty tricks

[a_unique_person]

according to this, anyway.

http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html

Halloween X: Follow The Money
3 Mar 2004
Excuse me, did we say in Halloween IX that Microsoft's under-the-table payoff to SCO for attacking Linux was just eleven million dollars? Turns out we were off by an order of magnitude — it was much, much more than that.

The document below was emailed to me by an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO. He tells me the typos and syntax bobbles were in the original. I could not, when I received it, certify its authenticity, but I presumed that IBM's, Red Hat's, Novell's, AutoZone's, and Daimler-Chryler's lawyers could subpoena the original. On March 4th SCO, within 24 hours of publication, I received word from Steven J. Vaughan at eWEEK.com that SCO had confirmed that the memo is legitimate.

Explanatory comments are interspersed in brown serif font (I changed this from green because of complaints from the colorblind). Particularly noteworthy bits of the original are in red.

Microsoft is funding SCO to attack Linux. It is not content to just take on Linux in the market place, it has to resort to underhand tactics. A virtual monopoly is not enough. It is to control everything.

Take note, Shanek.

 

[Jude]

So far, it's just a rumor.

 

[a_unique_person]

The link claims it is more than just a rumour, it is a fact. Without the money from MS, SCO would be broke.

 

[Cain]

So far, it's just a rumor.

Ahem

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp

 

[a_unique_person]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36031.html

According to this, it's genuine.

SCO confirms MS 'smoking gun' email is genuine

The SCO Group has confirmed that the email attributed to long-time pal and former colleague of Darl McBride, Mike Anderer, is genuine. But it says that Eric Raymond's characterization of this as "a smoking gun" - implying Microsoft is behind SCO's legal campaign against Linux - is incorrect. Raymond published the leaked email on his opensource.org site this morning, and claims it reveals "the extent of SCO's sock-puppet relationship to its masters in Redmond", according to Raymond.

 

[Grammatron]

The link claims it is more than just a rumour, it is a fact. Without the money from MS, SCO would be broke.

It's still just a rumor and SCO is broke, they are gambling on the lawsuits paying off which raised their stock prices. But you can just go on blaming MS they must be evil.

 

[peptoabysmal]

SCO has confirmed the authenticity of the email but claims the content of the memo has been "mischaracterized."

"We believe the e-mail was simply a misunderstanding of the facts by an outside consultant who was working on a specific unrelated project to the BayStar transaction and he was told at the time of his misunderstanding. Contrary to the speculation of Eric Raymond, Microsoft did not orchestrate or participate in the BayStar transaction."

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1078458882.html

 

[a_unique_person]

Have you read it? They admit it is true, and it details that with MS$, SCO would be under. MS is the only thing keeping them afloat, and their only purpose is to cause chaos in the Unix world.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Do you also think that Bill Gates shot JFK?

 

[a_unique_person]

Do you also think that Bill Gates shot JFK?

As well as you, do you mean?

 

[Grammatron]

Have you read it? They admit it is true, and it details that with MS$, SCO would be under. MS is the only thing keeping them afloat, and their only purpose is to cause chaos in the Unix world.

SCO owns Unix why would they cause themselves problems.

 

[Nasarius]

SCO owns Unix why would they cause themselves problems.

Because everyone else stole Unix from them, of course!

 

[Grammatron]

Because everyone else stole Unix from them, of course!

Personally, I think they are full of ◊◊◊◊ and the sooner IBM, HP and Red Hat legally kick their ass the better, but I don't see any Microsoft conspiracy here.

 

[a_unique_person]

SCO owns Unix why would they cause themselves problems.

Because it is worth nothing to them any more. The major players all have their own brand of Unix, and the rest have Linux. They are just going out in a blaze of shame.