[Am-info] A hundred million funnelled from Microsoft to SCO...

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:48:45 -0500, Gene Gaines wrote:

>Quoting from article...
>
>"There you have it. A hundred million funnelled from Microsoft to
>SCO, of which they have $68.5 million left. Their 10Qs reveal
>that every other line of cash inflow is statistical noise by
>comparison. The brave new SCOsource business model is now clear:
>sue your customers, shill for Microsoft, kite your stock, and
>pray you stay out of jail.
>
>Postscript: five days after this memo was written, SCO's PR
>chief Blake Stowell responded to widespread speculation that
>Microsoft was behind the Bystar deal by vehemently denying it.
>
>Post-Postscript: According to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of CNET,
>SCO confirmed today (04 March) that this memo is legitimate."
>
>
>Above quoted from:
>   http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html
>
>Appears to be an internal SCO email leaked by an whistleblower
>SCO employee.
>
>When I look at Microsoft employees and Microsoft products from
>now on, I will think "rotting corpses alive with maggots", unless
>it proves that the above is lies and Microsoft is not involved
>with SCO.
>
>Gene Gaines
>gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com
>Sterling, Virginia

As a side note, last night Charlie Rose (PBS) had Bill Gates on as
guest, broadcast from MIT (I guess the venue was more the favorable
prop for BG:  the new computer science, but who knows).

Anyways, if you watched the hour long interview, I thought Charlie
did a reasonably good job toward the end asking a range of non-
technical questions ranging from Ballmer as CEO; philanthropy for
health (some on US health policy); Linux and how it's affecting MS;
viruses, worms and MS security; and just what Longhorn is supposed
to do and when it would be generally available.

My impression was that Microsoft's 'Chief Software Architect' was 
always seeking to put a positive spin on the questions and dodging 
and weaving several times when Charlie had to put him back on 
track to answer the core questions.

If I had Gates' dough I get some really professional coaches to present
myself better and maybe a surgeon or the like to fix a wavering, squeaking
voice.  I saw the encounter as somewhat uncomfortable, and a couple
of times a bit testy.  I'd bet it took a very long time to set up the interview.
Oh well, like Martha Stewart's $20k Birkin (handbag) going to court,
when you're among the rich-and-famous you really don't have to give
a damn.

Maybe I just see Gates more critically that the rest of the world.

-- 
Erick Andrews