Redmond admits role in SCO funding


ComputerWorld reports that executives from Microsoft introduced The SCO Group to
BayStar Capital, an investment firm that has funneled $50 million into the embattled software company.

The write up offers this quote from a SCO executive, "There were a number of different companies that SCO could have gone to for investments, but it just so happened that Baystar was the one selected."

SCO is perhaps best known for its on-going attempt to squeeze license and royalty agreements from companies and individuals that use Linux. The company has sued both IBM and Novell in its effort to wrest control of the open-source software movement for itself.

Editor's note: This sounds a heckuva of lot like Halliburton -- the beneficiary of billions of dollars in Iraq war contracts -- just happened to be run at one time by Vice President Dick Cheney.

You know, with a few coincidences like that, I would already be retired and so would my kids.