Re: [SLUG] Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

From: Levi Bard (taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2006 - 14:46:27 EST


> I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion, but you bring up an
> interesting point I hadn't thought of. MS funded SCO, and I wonder if
> they did so just to keep SCO going in the midst of the lawsuit. The idea
> being to see if suing Linux out of existence would work. Obviously it
> didn't.
>
> (This is probably something everyone but me saw from the beginning. I
> wouldn't be surprised. ;-)
>
> Since I doubt MS has given up (they rarely do), I wonder what their
> strategy is here.

I suspect now that SCO may have been a sortie to probe defenses and
see what kind of mistakes need to be avoided.

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