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

[Roy Bixler]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:30:01PM -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:
> Like I said, circumstantial evidence but nothing to take to the bank. 

However, the cirumstances certainly are adding up.

> Just to be clear, this has nothing to do with trusting Microsoft's 
> motives, but no matter what Microsoft says or doesn't say, if BayStar 
> is going to insist that Microsoft wasn't involved with this funding, 
> then the story pretty much ends there.

Between where the memo says "Microsoft referral" and BayStar says
"Microsoft wasn't involved", I'm sure there are plenty of ways for
Microsoft to get the funding to SCO Group without officially appearing
to be involved.  If you're Microsoft, there are only so many useless
Unix licences you can buy to support SCO Group.  Beyond that, you have
to be creative.  The point is to leave the public with only
circumstantial evidence.  This is where I hope the legals will step in
with some subpoenas and provide some clarity.

R.

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