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BayStar Capital, a private investment firm, has said that Microsoft suggested it invest in SCO Group, opening a window on Microsoft's role in encouraging the anti-Linux campaign being waged by the small Utah company. BayStar took Microsoft's suggestion to heart and invested $50 million in SCO last October. But a spokesman for BayStar, Robert McGrath, said Thursday that Microsoft didn't put money in the transaction and Microsoft is not an investor in BayStar. He added that Microsoft executives were not investors as individuals in the investment firm, which is based near San Francisco.
Re: Microsoft Aided Anti-Linux Effort
Posted by: Simon G Best 2004-03-15 10:19:12 In reply to: Steve Lohr
"SCO owns the rights to Unix, an operating system initially developed at Bell Labs."
That's really misleading, at best.
For one thing, UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/). They define what UNIX systems are (http://www.unix.org/).
For another, there's that dispute with Novell!
"SCO contends that Linux, a variant of Unix, violates its contract rights."
Linux is not "a variant of Unix". (Surely this is basic stuff?)
That's really misleading, at best.
For one thing, UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/). They define what UNIX systems are (http://www.unix.org/).
For another, there's that dispute with Novell!
"SCO contends that Linux, a variant of Unix, violates its contract rights."
Linux is not "a variant of Unix". (Surely this is basic stuff?)
