Leaked SCO memo

[DarkHand]

All the conspiracy theorists (myself included) who thought Microsoft was funding SCO for their lawsuits were right! Microsoft gave SCO $86 million to fund their lawyers:

Leaked Memo

 

[posol]

how cana company be in debt when its owner has 100 times the amount of debt in savings?

 

[DarkHand]

Originally posted by pissedoffsol@Mar 4 2004, 10:25 AM
how cana company be in debt when its owner has 100 times the amount of debt in savings?

They're not. As of now, SCO has $68.5 million in cash reserves. Without the Microsoft money, they would have been about $15 million in debt.

 

[posol]

read it again... its the other way around.

the article says that M$ would be in the whole 15 mil without the bump from sco

 

[DarkHand]

Originally posted by pissedoffsol@Mar 4 2004, 10:49 AM
read it again... its the other way around.

the article says that M$ would be in the whole 15 mil without the bump from sco

I realize the last negotiations are not as much fun, but Microsoft will
have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar.  The next deal we
should be able to get from $16-20, but it will be brutial as it is for
go to makerket work and some licences.

This is the smoking gun. We now know that Microsoft raised at least $86 million for SCO, but according to the SCO conference call this morning (03 Mar 2004) their cash reserves were $68.5 million. If not for Microsoft, SCO would be at least $15 million in debt today.

I still don't see it.

 

[posol]

bah i suck

 

[lsvtec]

Careful before you go ape over it, where did this memo come from? Who leaked it? Is it credible? I could whip up an "insider memo" in no time and as long as I included what the few Linux Bigots out there wanted to hear they would eat it up. I am not sure that I buy into this yet. Not without more proof.

 

[CRX-YEM]

that memo is really old, it was on Slashdot months ago