From: Peter Sawatzki 

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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