[geeks] Oh my, MS is really afraid of lawyers...

[Kurt Huhn]

Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Report: Microsoft To License Unix From SCO
> 
> The move suggests that the deep-pocketed software company sees SCO's
> patents as important and could prompt other companies to sign license
> agreements to avoid legal action.
> 
> http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,81346,00.html?nlid=AM
> 
> 

I don't buy that statement at all.  I'm leaning toward "MS has been
engineering this suit against IBM and other companies by SCO all along, and
this purchase of licenses is thier method of funding SCO's activites without
seeming to be supporting them."

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