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Story: Microsoft 'offered to underwrite SCO funding'

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Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 9 October 2006, 6:42 PM)

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The Linux community should be greatful to Microsoft. By indirectly supprorting SCO Microsoft made it possible to for SCO to tell the world that Linux was an enterprise ready, IBM supported system and worthy competitor to UNIX. This is what people will remember when SCO is bacrupt in spite of Microsoft support.

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