On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:27 am, Marc Oestreicher graced me with: <snip> > Are they committing commercial suicide or is that just the way > it appears when mocro$oft uses another company as a pawn? It would > be interisting to hear the conversations going on between closed > doors the last month but I suppose that we can only guess.
Hmmm....that does make me wonder now if there's an exchange of monies between M$ and SCO, or maybe future promises, that could make SCO want to spend all this time and money ruining their reputation beyond repair, alienate themselves with every respectable firm in the international computing community. Oh! I just came up with the wildest scenario! M$ is backing SCO behind the scenes with the idea that if they could win some leverage, M$ could step in and buy them out, having the beginning of a lucrative monopoly on UNIX source code. And if SCO fails to achieve any of this, M$ backs away from their dealings leaving SCO to sink beneath the angry mobs and go under as a business...still acquiring them for even less to create their own UNIX/Linux. We know M$ never creates anything, just acquires it. Jeeeeeezzz. If I was dreaming this in my sleep, I would classify it as a bona fide nightmare. :-0 T
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