On Mon, 10 May 2004 16:40:10 -0500
Avi Schwartz disseminated the following:

> > And SCO aka Caldera used to be a perfectly respectable 'nix company.
> 
> Wasn't the RBC investment part of the $50M SCO received from BayStar on 
> Oct 16, 2003, 7 months into the SCO lawsuit?  I bet they thought, just 
> like BayStar, that SCO will be able to extort billions of dollars from 
> IBM and Linux licensees, which makes them no better then SCO and 
> BayStar.  Just a bunch of greedy bankers.

Actually, worse, it was RBC, IIRC, that initially fronted the whole transaction.

> BTW, don't get me wrong, I like Canada (both English and French 
> speaking parts) and Canadians (ditto).  I just don't like SCO investors 
> :-)

There are two industries who are exempt from all rules of karma, ethics, or
fair dealing in general: banks and insurance companies. True the world 'round. 

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