● 02.20.08

●● SCO and Microsoft: Where Things Stand

Posted in Courtroom, Finance, GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft, Novell, SCO at 7:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Linux.com has just summarised the recent affairs that we covered here about SCO’s latest cash injection [1, 2]. I’m fortunate enough to have received a mention among titans like PJ and Jim Zemlin.

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> Datamation’s Roy Schestowitz notes that for a company with such a troubled and checkered past, it’s a mystery why anyone would want to come forward and help rescue it from certain death. “Why would anyone invest in SCO?” he asks. “More importantly, why now?”

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> Groklaw’s Jones may have an answer. She suggests a connection between the new investors and Microsoft’s Bill Gates.

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> In the end, though, all the hype may be just that — hype. Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, says all the theories and conjecture are just navel-gazing. In fact, he says the whole story is nothing more than “a speculator picking the bones of a defunct company. The facts of the SCO case haven’t changed; the Linux industry is stronger than ever.”

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For those who have not seen the latest update from Groklaw, here is the bit to keep an eye on and make a mental note of.

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> Update: It seems Bill Gates has a friend in this picture. The two announced another deal last year, according to this IHT article, “Four Seasons Hotels agrees to bid from Gates and Alwaleed”: Gates and Alwaleed have collaborated for at least two years. After attending a dinner at Gates’s home in Bellevue, Washington, in early 2004, Alwaleed agreed to explore ways to assist Microsoft’s expansion in Saudi Arabia.

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> So, there’s Waldo.

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We shall see what else Groklaw can come up with. That’s where the SCO gurus are. █

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