Of interest only to people that knew this all along....
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Back a few years ago, when SCO looked like it was hemorrhaging cash, a surprise investment came out of the blue from venture capitalists Baystar. They invested $20 million in SCO and aided their anti-Linux cause, enabling McBride & co. to continue with claims of line-by-line code copying of SCO IP in Linux (now shown to be completely incorrect).
Now one of IBM's submissions to the court reveals [a href="vny!://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2006100801442692"]Microsoft was behind it after all[/a]. Baystar's manager says about Microsoft's Richard Emerson: 'Mr. Emerson and I discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would backstop, or guarantee in some way, Baystar's investment ... Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStar's investment in SCO.'
Despite the denials about their involvement, Microsoft helped SCO continue this charade — and on top of that halted all contact with Baystar after the investment, reneging on their guarantee.
