Microsoft dragged into IBM SCO legal tussle
InternetNews | at | by Mike
A recent court filing by IBM seems to point an accusing finger at Microsoft as the puppetmaster behind the long-running lawsuit between IBM and SCO, but the connection is tenuous at best.
BayStar, an investment firm, stepped up to provide SCO with $50 million in private investment in 2003.
However, one year later BayStar recalled $20 million of that, feeling SCO had squandered the money on pointless legal wrangling and wrecked its reputation and ability to sell products.
In a declaration filed last week with the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, BayStar executive Larry Goldfarb said that former Microsoft senior VP for corporate development and strategy Richard Emerson discussed "a variety of investment structures wherein Microsoft would 'backstop,' or guarantee in some way, BayStar's investment."