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Microsoft hires SCO veteran as its Competitive Strategy guru | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

There were people who suspected all along that the SCO suits were a scam secretly sponsored by a somewhat slimy Seattle-area software-slinger. Seeing stories like this can only strengthen those suspicions. Microsoft has enough going on right now and does not need to attract additional scrutiny.

I cannot understand what MSFT sees in Gupta, discredited as he is. Don’t get me wrong. It isn’t about slamming either the man or his new employer. I just don’t see why the king of software needs someone else whose ethics may be questioned. I think it is time for the company to replace its CxO staff with people of unquestionable ethics and integrity, people who will scrupulously obey not just the letter of the law, but the spirit thereof.