02.26.08
Dishonesty Looms Over SCO’s New Cash Injection/Infusion/Investment/Whatever
You can typically say that something is amiss when you begin to spot inconsistencies, denial and sudden changes in stories. And that, according to Groklaw, is what we are beginning to find in the latest mysterious investment in SCO.
PJ has the details:
Now this is interesting enough to highlight. It’s about the private equity firm looking to loan SCO money so they can sue Linux users again full speed ahead, Stephen Norris & Co Capital Partners, or SNCP. Timothy Prickett Morgan on ItJungle wrote a glowing piece about their connection to military contractors and Middle Eastern money and retired general Wesley Clark, and then something peculiar happened…
We summarised some of the most recent observations about this here. By all means remember the BayStar story (Microsoft asking BayStar to invest in SCO) and consider a possible new connection. If they did this before, might they be doing it again to fuel unnecessary legal battles? █
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Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.