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Re: SCO to block SuSE sale and go after BSD's

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From: Allen
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:25
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zentara wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:43:00 GMT, "Justin Thyme"
> <pleasedontspamme@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>"AlanS" <AlanSNoSpam@codefish.net.au> wrote in message
>>news:pan.2003.11.19.10.40.58.265000@codefish.net.au...
>>>
>>http://www.codefish.net.au
modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=483&mode=thread&order=1&thold=-1
>>SCO are becoming the spoilt brat of the playground.  Sco is the kid who
>>has
> 
>>I think they know their company is going under - perhaps they are trying
>>to get a few $$ as settlements to keep them afloat a bit longer (keep the
>>executives driving flashy cars for a bit longer).
> 
> I think focussing on SCO's greed as a motive, plays into their hands.
> It distracts attention from "who really benefits" from this.
> 
> I really believe Microsoft is secretly behind SCO. Microsoft, and the
> "pay for software community" feel desparately threatened by Linux and
> the OpenSource movement.
> 
> <2 cents>
> I would bet that if there was a "real" government investigation of all
> this, they would come up with alot of "third party secret connections"
> between SCO and Microsoft.  They already have Microsoft "buying
> SCO licenses" for millions of dollars, which is financing SCO's
> shenanigans.
> 
> But ever since the Bush administration got in power, Microsoft has been
> given a free hand to do what they want.... to the detriment of the
> security of the US internet (to quote Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson).
> 
> Microsoft should have been broken up, but Bush got in, and all that
> was overturned. It's just another example of Republican-corporate
> corruption......Enron, WorldComm, Haliburton, and yes....Microsoft.
> 
> I shudder when I think of "computerized voting systems" using Microsoft
> software.
> 
> </2 cents>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> When life conspires against you, and no longer floats your boat,
> Don't waste your time with crying, just get on your back and float.
I just read today that Mickeysoft investd 50M in SCO stock to fund the
lawyers. I believed from the begining that MS was behind this whole thing. 
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From: Allen <gramps@operamail.com>
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Subject: Re: SCO to block SuSE sale and go after BSD's
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