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

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:25:18 -0500, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

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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.
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>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.

It does seem so.  Judge Jackson...even without a specific 'smoking gun' on this 
point...did in his Opinion come down strongly against MS for many similar nasties.  
Then he was replaced by Judge Kollar-Kotelly via our current DOJ puppets, even
after the DC Appeals Court upheld the basics of his Opinions and Remedies.

We know what happened, and we're still on the same dime.  Remember how
Jackson got nobbled with his association with Ken Auletta?

>Will some reporter PLEASE look into this issue?

No one I've found seems to have strong enough a warrant to argue the claim, in 
print at least.  Can you suggest any?  That is, anyone who would/could make a
strong case from the evidence and inferences that we believe are there?

>John

Erick