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Robert Moir wrote:
> 
> "Bob Lyday" <lydayfamily@diespammersdie.sierratel.com> wrote in message
> news:38EBA8F4.D26EEEC5@diespammersdie.sierratel.com...
> > phil hunt wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 01:34:40 GMT, Shell <sheldon+usenet@yuck.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Rex Ballard has been going around for at least 5 years spreading tales
> about
> > > >Microsoft signing agreements with SCO to prevent them from getting into
> the
> > > >Unix market.  And because everybody *WANTS* to believe it's true, they
> just
> > > >accept it as fact without verification.
> > >
> > > That's interesting.
> > >
> > > Do you (or anyone else) have any factual information either way on
> whether
> > > MS agreed with SCO not to re-enter the Unix market?
> > >
> > I just read the other day on the Net that M$ just concluded a
> > suit involving SCO.  It was concluded that they engaged in
> > anti-competitive behavior and they had to pay like $180
> > million.  Pocket change to them.  I think the case was brought
> > in Britain for some reason.  I couldn't understand the article.
> > > --
> 
> Isn't "I read the other day on the Net" the modern version of "It happened
> to my brother's cousin's aunt's friend's uncle"
> 
> URL please.

Sorry Robert can't remember it.  Perhaps you can do a search on
it.  I read the article all right and there was some kind of
suit over M$ and SCO.  M$ settled out of court as always.  It
involved accusations of restraint of trade.
-- 
Bob
"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any
significant number of users want fixed," Bill Gates, in an
interview with Focus magazine, Oct 23, 1995.
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