Yet more interesting developments - Microsoft gets into bed with SCO and
gives them a fighting fund. Well what a surprise!

See the following and watch the wrap.

http://www.computerweekly.com/rd/article.asp?liArticleID=121938&liFlavour
ID=2&ebref=1707

In article <[log in to unmask]>, Tom Brandt
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> From the NY Times:
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>
>
>SCO targets Linux customers
>May 15, 2003
>Stephen Shankland, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
>
>SCO Group, a financially struggling company that claims its
>Unix intellectual property has been illegally incorporated
>into Linux, has sent letters to about 1,500 of the world's
>largest corporations warning they could be liable for using
>Linux.
>
>The move, announced Wednesday, dramatically broadens the
>Lindon, Utah-based company's potential legal actions beyond
>its initial target, IBM. Big Blue, a SCO licensee, was sued
>in March for more than $1 billion on allegations that
>include inappropriately using Unix trade secrets to improve
>Linux.
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