[Am-info] SCO and Microsoft

[Roy Bixler]

A couple of interesting reads I've found recently on SCO and how it
relates to Microsoft:

CRN Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=46153

My favourite part:

    CRN: Conspiracy theorists say you guys are acting as Microsoft's
    pawn against open source and the General Public License [GPL]. Can
    you comment?

    McBride: The funny part is we didn't even talk to Microsoft about
    this outside the normal public interest level things... when we
    talk to them it's about what's happening in the marketplace.

Also, Groklaw is carrying a pretty good analysis of how SCO's FUD
against open source is meant to slow open source adoption enough to
allow Microsoft to roll out Next Generation Secure Computing Base and
further increase customer lock-in:

Microsoft's Customer Lock-in and Competition Lock-out
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031121013756776

R.

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