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:
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.
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.
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