----- Original Message ----- From: "George Toft" To: "PLUG Discuss" Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 2:54 AM Subject: Microsoft/SCO versus Linux - Ultimate Conspiracy Theory > Remember about 20 years ago when Microsoft owned Xenix, developed by > SCO? Then they transferred their interest back to SCO. Imagine if a > Microsoft mole with advanced knowledge of the SCO kernel (and maybe the > source code as well) were to contribute some of that code to the Linux > kernel. A couple years later, SCO "finds" their code in the Linux > kernel and files suit against the biggest player around. This would > have a devastating effect on Linux in the corporate marketplace, which > is precisely what Microsoft wants, and it paves the way for their > "purebred, certified" code to fill the vacuum as thousands of companies > dump Linux. You are giving M$ a lot of credit for seeing the future. This is that same company that totally under-rated the importance of the Internet. Granted, they play a mean game of catch-up and destroy, but they just don't do a very good job at calling the future. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com