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		bombcar on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later > Microsoft, which had not yet learned to love Linux, funded SCO and loudly bought licenses from the company. They could go into more detail how SCO vs IBM ended up being a proxy war for larger corporations and interests, but it's a short article and it gets most of the high points.

tpmx on March 3, 2023 [–]

> but it's a short article and it gets most of the high points.

I disagree. It's a pretty detailed article (~1800 words) and Microsoft's role just gets a passing mention.

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