Come on, you don't need a conspiracy to explain this. SCO is out suing IBM to try an make some money. From SCO's viewpoint, a buyout would be nice, but pumping the stock price and bailing out works as well. Somebody at Microsoft sees what's going on and thinks it would be neat to throw a little doubt into Linux by licensing SCO's IP. Afterall, you've got $50B US in cash laying around - what's a few million to keep SCO's cause going. Then Balmer in his usual ham-handed way decides to hint that some of MS's IP has found its way into Linux. Aggressive business practices on Microsoft's part? Sure, no big surprise there, but hardly a conspiracy. --rick Brian wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Bob Tanner wrote: > > > >>IBM claims SCO conspiring with Microsoft over Linux >> >> > >Does this surprise anyone? After MS claims that linux contains THEIR IP >as well, using the same "we can prove it but only to those who will be >gagged by an NDA" tactic, it's almost obvious that they're in this >together. > >-Brian > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list