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April 17, 2004
Software Peace At Last?
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn
History may record the Sun-Microsoft agreement as just the first in a series of dominoes that finally brought peace to the software business. (The image, by the way, is from an exhibit of patches at the Vietnam Helicopter War Museum.)
How else can one interpret news that BayStar Capital has called in its loan to SCO, whose lawsuits are threatening the open source movement by claiming full ownership and control of Linux?
Just remember where that money came from.
Let me refresh your memory:
"Microsoft Corp. acted as the matchmaker for the $50 million investment led by BayStar Capital into The SCO Group Inc. last October." That story came out in March.
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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for over 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the "Interactive Age Daily" for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, and dozens of other publications over the years.
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