> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Hoffbeck [mailto:rwh at visi.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:20 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] IBM claims SCO conspiring with Microsoft > over Linux > > > 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 > True. And very few companies in Microsoft's position wouldn't do the same. Sun is offering up Solaris as a safe house. If HP wasn't so attached at the hip to Linux they would take advantage of the situation too. _______________________________________________ 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