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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A new court filing claims Microsoft helped a Utah company raise money for its legal challenge to the open-source Linux operating system.
A sworn statement from a California investor says he invested 50(M) million dollars in The S-C-O Group at the urging of Microsoft executives who promised to guarantee the investment against any losses.
BayStar Capital manager Larry Goldfarb says Microsoft reneged on the promise.
Microsoft denies the company made any such assurance.
Goldfarb's declaration was filed last week by I-B-M along with motions asking a judge to throw out S-C-O's long-running case.
S-C-O sued I-B-M more than three years ago for allegedly donating SCO's proprietary Unix code to Linux developers.
U-S District Judge Dale Kimball has scheduled an Oct. 24th hearing in the case.
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