Comments on: Investment firm confirms Microsoft link to SCO

Investment company BayStar Capital confirms ties between two Linux foes, saying that a Microsoft referral led to $50 million in BayStar funding for the SCO Group.

I am so Suprised

That Microsoft would spend money to try and squash Linux. Who would ever have guessed this.

[woj]

::sarcasm detector explodes::

Britain's MI2 also reports that due to an increase in
attacks against *nix servers that M$ comes in 2nd for
security [conspiracy theory] now who would have the
resources to do that? [/ct]
(BSD came in first for security BTW)



(Yeah, what the OS Apple hawks is built on)

[Johni Depp]

try and squash Linux

http://myweb.yahoo.com/myweb?ei=UTF-8&friendid=z1HluB4R8Zd7TqmQd99StA--&dg=0&tag=imported+rss&b=181

[bjbrock]

Microsoft and its methodology

I submitted feedback to a CNET reporter a short while ago and he said that if my notions were of any merit, we would have to assume Microsoft was inherently evil in its tactics. Agreed. The more I read in the technology news, the more it appears that such an assumption may very well be valid. With the disclosure of the fact that Microsoft was sending free Office apps to federal employees and now this current revalation, the idea of less than ethical practices by Microsoft seems pretty much confirmed. It scares me to think we have placed so much power in the hands of an entity who obviously has no problem with unethical practices. You doubt the power? If every Windows based computer were to stop functioning today, the world economy would crash. Makes me wonder what type of code may be hidden in the Windows operating system. With the incorporation of UPnP into the IT world, Windows now has the ability to control every IT system which includes an XP desktop operating system. In effect giving total control to Microsoft. I guess this does not bother anyone else but it makes me wonder how long it will be before every facet of IT is being controlled by a company whose practices are coming to light as covert, self serving and total control oriented. Does no one else see this as an issue?

[woj]

yup

The problem is that most people don't see it at all (or
refuse to)
also, (IIRC) guess who paid for Rumsfeld's campaign?

(correct me if I'm wrong)