Halloween X: Follow The Money (SCO is being funded by Microsoft)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Well, well, sounds like the tinfoilhatters were NOT tinfoilhatters after all.

http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html

Excuse me, did we say in Halloween IX that Microsoft's under-the-table payoff to SCO for attacking Linux was just eleven million dollars? Turns out we were off by an order of magnitude — it was much, much more than that.

The document below was emailed to me by an anonymous whistleblower inside SCO. He tells me the typos and syntax bobbles were in the original. I could not, when I received it, certify its authenticity, but I presumed that IBM's, Red Hat's, Novell's, AutoZone's, and Daimler-Chryler's lawyers could subpoena the original. On March 4th SCO, within 24 hours of publication, I received word from Steven J. Vaughan at eWeek that SCO had confirmed that the memo is legitimate.

Explanatory comments are interspersed in green serif font.. Particularly noteworthy bits of the original are in red.

Go read it.

[Occulus]

1. Well, now, THAT'S interesting.

[Gman]

2. Well now. Isn't this so very special

Microsoft once again is moving to not stifle, but kill, its competition. Think the DOJ might be interested?? BWAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! Yeah, right!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. The DOJ will probably say Linus Torvalds is Osama in disguise.

He shaved and dyed his hair, you know. And is being given shelter by all those gay couples in San Francisco.

[TacticalPeek]

3. Money doesn't talk. It swears. n/t

[Woodstock]

5. Micro$oft is the root of all evil

Yes, I'm exaggerating, but sadly, not as much as one would think. There is not much I wouldn't put past them.

Anyone who claims to be a progressive but doesn't make just the little effort it takes to deny Gates more money has to stop and do a little reflecting.

Get a Mac, get a Palm, get Open Office (openoffice.org) for documents, get Mozilla (mozilla.org) for browsing and mail,... - come on, it's easy, it's all out there - and it's better than the crap Gates is force feeding the world. Be a real progressive and stop supporting the evil empire.