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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: An Outlandish Suggestion
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:28:12 +0100

On 24 May 2004, at 20:22, Greg London wrote:

SCO is not a random idiot.
Microsoft introduced SCO to an investment firm, named BayStar Financing.
BayStar then invested $50 million into SCO.
And Microsoft funneled $86 million into BayStar.

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/unix/story/ 0%2C10801%2C91145%2C00.html?f=x79

SCO is Microsoft's "privateer", a ship with no flag
to identify who is funding its attacks.

I think you need to phrase that as a question. :-)

My point is that if it wasn't SCO it would be somebody else, and if it wasn't over owning the System V source code and the original copyright on knock-knock jokes, it would be the names of the root folders in the UNIX filesystem.

Groklaw is good for the big picture: http://www.groklaw.net/ . It's under a CC license. :-)

- Rob.

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"Smash global capitalism! Spend less money!"





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