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SCO And BayStar Still Fighting
News The SCO Group and BayStar Capital, the fund that arranged a crucial $50m (£27m) investment in the Linux litigator, haven't settled their disagreements after all. SCO and BayStar appeared to have buried the hatchet in June, announcing a deal under...
[July 26, 2004, 9:10]
BayStar Wants Management Changes At SCO
Talkback Are Baystar exerting pressure to ratchet up SCO's legal forays at M$ behest. SCO's actions are not designed to right a wrong but to attempt to milk the situation and profit from other's efforts. Methinks mischief.
[April 23, 2004, 20:56]
BayStar Buys More Of SCO
Talkback What do Baystar know that the rest of us don't? Are Sco's fixed assets worth more than their business or is everybody's favourite behind this, after all another $20 is small change to him? And what of SCO's bona fide customers, are they to be...
[May 12, 2004, 20:12]
Investor Wants To Pull Out Of SCO
News BayStar Capital is seeking to get back the $20m (£11.05m) it invested in the SCO Group, raising issues for SCO's expensive and controversial legal campaign that argues that Linux infringes its Unix copyrights.
[April 19, 2004, 12:20]
IBM Demands Details Of SCO Dealings With HP, Microsoft, Sun
News The long-running legal battle between IBM and SCO over the claim that Linux violates SCO's intellectual property took another twist on Tuesday, when IBM sent subpoenas to Microsoft, HP, Sun and Baystar.
[February 22, 2006, 12:55]
BayStar's Common Shares Go On The Market
News BayStar Capital, the investment fund that arranged a $50m cash infusion for the SCO Group, has begun selling its common shares. BayStar and SCO arranged a deal in June in which the Linux litigator would buy back all 40,000 of BayStar's preferred...
[September 29, 2004, 9:25]
BayStar Wants Management Changes At SCO
News After nearly a week of silence, BayStar Capital said on Wednesday that its move to retrieve a $20m (£11.3m) investment in the SCO Group was part of an effort to induce major changes at the Linux litigator -- including new senior management and a...
[April 22, 2004, 12:45]
BayStar Settles Differences With SCO
News BayStar Capital, the firm that arranged a $50m (£27m) investment in the SCO Group but then sought to get its money back, has settled its disagreement with a deal to sell its preferred shares to SCO. BayStar didn't immediately respond to requests...
[June 2, 2004, 9:00]
Proof Emerges Of SCO's Microsoft Link
News Investment company BayStar Capital has confirmed ties between two Linux foes, saying on Thursday that a Microsoft referral led to $50m (£27.8m) in BayStar funding for the SCO Group. Yes, Microsoft did introduce BayStar to SCO," a BayStar...
[March 12, 2004, 7:25]
BayStar Buys More Of SCO
News The Royal Bank of Canada has sold two-thirds of its investment in the SCO Group to co-investor BayStar Capital, giving the hedge fund more power in its search for major changes at the Unix company. In October, RBC invested $30m (£16.9m), and...
[May 10, 2004, 12:35]
SCO Accepts $50m Investment
News SCO Group, the company embroiled in legal action around Linux and Unix, announced a $50m investment by BayStar Capital on Thursday, marking a reversal of plans it discussed in May. That conversion that would give BayStar 2,953,000 shares, or 17.5...
[October 17, 2003, 9:30]
More Microsoft SCO Links Emerge
News As reported on Monday, court documents from the ongoing court case between IBM and SCO had claimed Microsoft had encouraged financial firm BayStar to invest in SCO. The claim was made by BayStar founder Larry Goldfarb, who said Microsoft's vice...
[October 10, 2006, 15:05]
Microsoft 'offered To Underwrite SCO Funding'
News An executive at BayStar called Larry Goldfarb stated in a court declaration that Microsoft's vice president of corporate development and strategy, Richard Emerson, had offered to underwrite BayStar's own investment in SCO.
[October 9, 2006, 13:35]
Who Shot Darl McBride?
Talkback Good article, but there's one more hypothesis you and BayStar should consider. I seriously doubt that BayStar is involved in monkey business of any sort. The point of SCO's shtick isn't to win lawsuits, it's to have lawsuits in play.
[April 23, 2004, 20:36]
Open-source Guru Claims Proof Of MS-SCO Link
News The memo suggests that Microsoft had a hand in a $50m (£27m) investment in SCO by venture capital firm BayStar Capital, something previously denied by BayStar. While BayStar has dealt with Microsoft funding in other deals, the SCO investment...
[March 4, 2004, 16:30]
Microsoft Email 'misunderstood' - SCO
News BayStar Capital's $50m investment in SCO wasn't due to Microsoft's participation, said Blake Stowell, a spokesman for SCO. On Thursday, a Microsoft representative told CNET News.com that the company is not financially involved in the SCO-BayStar...
[March 5, 2004, 7:55]
SCO Allowed To Delay IBM Trial
Talkback Finally, is it actually SCO v Linux, or Baystar v Linux? And who put Baystar up to it in the first place? OK, so Judge Kimball has confirmed that there is indeed difficulty over Novell/SCO unix copyright so that is one major missile in SCO's attack...
[June 14, 2004, 12:06]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The latest information — and the one thing in the past three-and-a-half years that rings the truest — comes from Larry Goldfarb, one of the chaps in charge of BayStar, an investment vehicle that coughed up $50m for SCO just before the company...
[October 13, 2006, 19:35]
SCO Lays Off Staff To Boost Balance Sheet
News Stowell said the move wasn't influenced by the urging of one of SCO's major investors, BayStar Capital, which earlier in April said SCO should drop its Unix product business and pay more attention to its legal case against Linux.
[May 5, 2004, 9:05]
