Why Microsoft won't assault Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Nov 9, 2006 9:52 UTC (Thu) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

They put some money that way as they could hide their motive as agreeing with SCO over claimed IP rights, to those who didn't want to see this for what it was. MS would prefer to attack Linux using proxies for PR reasons, but there are limits to how something that isn't owned by any single person or company can be effectively attacked. If MS wants to retain any goodwill from those credulous enough to still have any, this limits the dirty tricks they can use.