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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.