kilikili
03-05-2004, 03:42 PM
This is for all those running Linux on their machine at home or at work... especially for graphics.
What they said:
"For months, some in the software industry have speculated that Microsoft is surreptitiously and indirectly funding the SCO Group Inc.'s copyright-infringement campaign against Linux users and distributors. That speculation finally proved too difficult to ignore for SCO Thursday, when the company refuted it.
SCO maintains that parts of its copyrighted Unix System V source code were illegally used in the Linux open-source operating system. Linux has been winning converts at the expense of Microsoft Windows.
A leaked E-mail posted Wednesday on the Open Source Initiative's Web site appeared to provide evidence that SCO employees and a consultant were looking to Microsoft to help fund SCO's legal strategy and licensing initiatives.
The contractor reportedly is Mike Anderer, a consultant with S2 Strategic Consulting LLC. Open Source Initiative president Eric Raymond posted the E-mail and outlined in an article on the site what he sees as an inappropriately private partnership. OSI is a nonprofit corporation that manages the open-source trademark.
SCO vouched for the authenticity of the Oct. 12, 2003, E-mail exchange referred to by Raymond. It was sent from Anderer to Chris Sontag, SCO's general manager of SCOsource licensing, and SCO CFO Bob Bench. In it, Anderer writes that Microsoft was responsible for $86 million in funding to SCO. This includes a $50 million investment in SCO last October by venture fund BayStar Capital."
More >>> (http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18202021)
-Kilikili
What they said:
"For months, some in the software industry have speculated that Microsoft is surreptitiously and indirectly funding the SCO Group Inc.'s copyright-infringement campaign against Linux users and distributors. That speculation finally proved too difficult to ignore for SCO Thursday, when the company refuted it.
SCO maintains that parts of its copyrighted Unix System V source code were illegally used in the Linux open-source operating system. Linux has been winning converts at the expense of Microsoft Windows.
A leaked E-mail posted Wednesday on the Open Source Initiative's Web site appeared to provide evidence that SCO employees and a consultant were looking to Microsoft to help fund SCO's legal strategy and licensing initiatives.
The contractor reportedly is Mike Anderer, a consultant with S2 Strategic Consulting LLC. Open Source Initiative president Eric Raymond posted the E-mail and outlined in an article on the site what he sees as an inappropriately private partnership. OSI is a nonprofit corporation that manages the open-source trademark.
SCO vouched for the authenticity of the Oct. 12, 2003, E-mail exchange referred to by Raymond. It was sent from Anderer to Chris Sontag, SCO's general manager of SCOsource licensing, and SCO CFO Bob Bench. In it, Anderer writes that Microsoft was responsible for $86 million in funding to SCO. This includes a $50 million investment in SCO last October by venture fund BayStar Capital."
More >>> (http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18202021)
-Kilikili