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[John J. Urbaniak]

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> So Microsoft paid SCO $100 million and they used the money to sue IBM?
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>

If this is true, it proves that MS will offer money under the table to kill any
product they view as a threat.

I have to ask - how much money did Microsoft pay IBM back in 1995 to kill OS/2 and
give MS its monopoly?  If IBM accepted money from MS back then and as a result
dropped OS/2 as a competitor to Windows, that's a clear violation of Antitrust
laws on both parts.

Will some reporter PLEASE look into this issue?

John


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> >
> > Subject: [Am-info] A hundred million funnelled from Microsoft to SCO...
> > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:48:45 -0500
> > From: Gene Gaines <gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com>
> > Organization: Gaines Group
> > To: AM-INFO <am-info@lists.essential.org>
> >
> > 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
> >
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