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Quick Mention: Bill Gates' Dad Comes to Collect Back the FUD Budget

The world is still not "as stupid as Microsoft needs it to be"

In Groklaw, an interesting short report was published which shows that Microsoft wants its money back from SCO.

Now it's getting interesting. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' father's law firm, known as the firm that represents Microsoft, has just filed a Notice of Entry of Appearance and Demand for Notices and Papers [PDF] in the SCO bankruptcy on behalf of MSLI.

[...]

I guess filing as MSLI instead of Microsoft Licensing is like putting on sunglasses, hoping no one will notice you.


We've mentioned in the past some of the rather obvious connections between Microsoft and SCO, including other by-proxy lawsuits against Linux. It is worth rereading in order for the context of this to be fully understood.

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