IBM Probes Microsoft's Relationship with SCO

[der.hans]

Am 24. Feb, 2006 schwätzte Joshua Zeidner so:

> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=9C46B7CD-67E3-46E6-A23F-6C6BEF6A1DD3

Looks like the same old blah to me. If m$ was in .ca.us it might be doing
hard time due to the 3 strikes laws, but barring that it'll be business as
usual because the minor legal annoyances don't outweight the ill-gained
income or market share.

ciao,

der.hans

> also Financial Times had a good article yesterday.
>
> BTW- Bill Gates + Google CEO will be on C-SPAN 2 tonight... should be good.
>
> On 2/24/06, Jerry Davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Friday 24 February 2006 03:22 am, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>> there are definately major things happening in this space:
>>>
>>> http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/opensource02162006.htm
>>>
>>> Also microsoft is facing a brand new anti-trust lawsuit.  I think this
>> one
>>> will sink the ship.
>>
>> please provide a link or links for this assertion.
>>
>>>
>>> On 2/24/06, Technomage <technomage-hawke at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> ran across this in a linux based newsgroup.
>>>>
>>>> looks like interesting things are happeneing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --------------- Forwarded message (begin)
>>>>
>>>> Subject: IBM Probes Microsoft's Relationship with SCO
>>>> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups at schestowitz.com>
>>>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:15:50 -0700
>>>> Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>>>
>>>> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/260537_msftibm23.html
>>>>
>>>> IBM demands documents detailing Microsoft's rivalry with Linux
>>>>
>>>> "IBM Corp. is seeking to compel Microsoft Corp. to hand over internal
>>>> documents detailing its rivalry with the Linux operating system, in a
>>>> move that could shed new light on the Redmond company's response to
>> one
>>>> of its biggest competitive threats."
>>>>
>>>> "...It's the latest development in IBM's long-running legal dispute
>> with
>>>> the
>>>> SCO Group. SCO, a software company based in Lindon, Utah, has filed
>> suit
>>>> against IBM and other companies, alleging that components of its Unix
>>>> software were added illegally to Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft isn't a party to the litigation, and it says it's not
>> involved.
>>>> But
>>>> that assertion has been under scrutiny since 2003, when Microsoft
>> began
>>>> licensing Unix technology from SCO. Ultimately, the related payments
>> from
>>>> Microsoft to SCO totaled more than $16 million, or 21 percent of SCO's
>>>> revenue that year..."
>>>>
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