The SCO-Microsoft Connection Grows Darker

Published: Oct 10, 2006
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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The cat is out of the bag. According to BayStar Capitals managing partner Larry Goldfarb, Microsoft allegedly assured BayStar that it would somehow “guarantee” BayStars $50 million investment in SCO.

Specifically, Goldfarb has testified to the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City that Microsoft senior VP of corporate development and strategy, Richard Emerson, “discussed a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would backstop, or guarantee in some way, BayStars investment … Microsoft assured me that it would in some way guarantee BayStars investment in SCO.”

Pam Jones, editor of Groklaw, reported recently that she has obtained a copy of Goldfarbs Declaration, and that the BayStar executive also said, “I had discussions with Kenneth Lustig, Microsofts managing director of intellectual property and Tivanka Ellawala, from Microsofts corporate development department regarding the SCO deal.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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