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  • BayStar begins selling SCO stock

    BayStar Capital, the investment fund that arranged a US$50 million cash infusion for the SCO Group, has begun selling its common shares.

  • SCO buyout settles Baystar investment spat

    BayStar Capital, the firm that arranged a US$50 million investment in the SCO Group but then sought to get its money back, has settled its disagreement with a deal to sell its preferred shares to SCO.

  • BayStar seeks to retrieve investment in SCO

    BayStar Capital is seeking to get back the US$20 million it invested in the SCO Group, raising issues for SCO's expensive and controversial legal campaign that argues Linux infringes its Unix copyrights.

  • SCO, BayStar resume squabbling

    The SCO Group and BayStar Capital, the fund that arranged a crucial US$50 million investment in the Linux litigator, haven't settled their disagreements after all.

  • Investment firm confirms Microsoft link to SCO

    Investment company BayStar Capital has confirmed ties between two Linux foes, saying Thursday that a Microsoft referral led to $50 million in BayStar funding for the SCO Group.

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  • Microsoft-SCO: Fact and fiction

    Is Microsoft funding the SCO Group's legal fight against Linux? ZDNet hopes to shed some light and answer common questions swirling around the duo's relationship.

  • Torvalds: Linux 2.6 beta coming

    Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.

  • Torvalds wraps up work on Linux core

    Linus Torvalds has released the last update to the current Linux development kernel, and says he will now turn his attention to the next version of the operating system core.

  • Virus writers elude Microsoft's bounty hunt

    A year on, and the company's US$1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?

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