From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Yep. It seems to be a pretty good investment for MS. Gates and company may
be predators but they seem to know how to go for the jugular.

"Peter Sawatzki"  wrote in message
news:MPG.19335fe550de34e29896fe{at}news.barkto.com...
> The interesting thing here is that SCO could use this as evidence in a
> trial AND now has certainly some money at hand for the trial.
>
> Peter
>
> In article , Gauszka{at}hotmail.com says...
> > Conspiracy theorists should get a charge out of  this one
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/30771.html
> >
> > MS blesses SCO, licenses Unix
> > By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
> > Posted: 19/05/2003 at 19:38 GMT
> >
> >
> > Microsoft's decision to license UNIX code from the litigious SCO Group
will
> > do little to allay fears that SCO is but a beard for Redmond.
> >
> > "The announcement of this license is representative of Microsoft's
ongoing
> > commitment to respecting intellectual property (IP) and the IT
community's
> > healthy exchange of IP through licensing," reports Peter
Galli at eWeek.
> > "This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and
supports
> > our efforts around existing products like Services for UNIX that further
> > UNIX interoperability."
> >
> > In what many regard as an exit strategy from the Unix business, the SCO
> > Group (formerly Caldera) has begun an aggressive campaign of litigation
> > against software libre implementations.
> >
> > Microsoft was instrumental in SCO's early growth. The Santa Cruz
Operation
> > developed a UNIX for x86 processors that Microsoft marketed as XENIXT.
After
> > Redmond lost interest (it didn't match the anticipated volumes) SCO
worked
> > hard to create channels and a successful business for Unix.
> >
> > Perhaps after years of raging against the Beast of Redmond, Ray Noorda -
who
> > pulls the strings at SCO via his holding group Canopy - has simply lost
the
> > appetite for a battle
> >
> >
> >

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