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

[Roy Bixler]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 03:48:45PM -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.

I also liked this analysis from The Register:

SCO confirms MS 'smoking gun' email is genuine
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/36031.html

They point out an overlooked fragment of the memo:

   "The will help us a lot and if we execute we could exit and Unix
    componients we have build potentially back to Microsoft or MCS,"
    Anderer writes.

Because of the poor grammar and spelling, it's unclear what it means
but it certainly sounds like he is suggesting some sort of
collaboration with Microsoft to shift Unix/Linux users to Windows.

> 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.

Come on, Gene, tell us what you really think. ;-)  Regardless of the
Microsoft angle, it's clear that SCO no longer cares about building
value through offering products customers want and is simply a
destructive economic force.  That they would be deeply in debt if not
for Microsoft funding is very telling.

R.

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