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Both HaleGlobal and York Capital Management must be reading Groklaw. Joke. Joke. As in, is there a difference?

Anyway, right after Groklaw pointed out two days ago that Microsoft Licensing was transferring its claim against SCO in the bankruptcy to an entity called LNS, and that LNS seems to point to HaleGlobal/York Capital, the phone number on one of the links we provided has been changed.

Silly wabbits. You can't cleanse the Internet. This jig is up, m'hearties. Naturally, we took the precaution of saving snapshots, which I will now show you, along with some more interesting tidbits, like the same building address for LNS and Charles Hale, Managing Director at York Capital.

First, notice the address on the filing [PDF] regarding Microsoft transferring its claim to LNS, captured in this screenshot: (visit site for details)

And in case Microsoft reads Groklaw: Shame on you, Microsoft. Seriously. If you knew, shame, shame, shame.

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said by Paul Krill :

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David Kaefer, director of Business Development, Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft, said open source had bolstered innovation in a distributed fashion, and he called the open source software movement a "very powerful force in the industry."

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So much is happening at once in the SCO bankruptcy. Novell has filed a Response [PDF] to SCO's Notice of Cure Amounts. Oracle has filed a limited objection [PDF] to SCO's Notice of Cure Amounts and is sending in a lawyer [PDF]. IBM is adding yet another lawyer, Noah J. Phillips [PDF]. Oracle has a claim listed on Exhibit A [also continued here], but it says it has no clue what contract is involved.

Microsoft Licensing has transferred its $158,954 claim [PDF] to a third party, LNS [signed by David Kaefer for MS licensing]. If Microsoft gets paid and Novell doesn't, I'd certainly like to know why.

Is Microsoft trying to transfer its claim to York? Why would it? And why would York want that claim? My brain is exploding. I honestly don't know what it all means, but it's too odd not to tell you about.

07/21/2009 - 855 [PDF] - Transfer/Assignment of Claim. Transfer Agreement 3001 (e) 2 Transferor: Microsoft Licensing, Inc. To LNS LLC. Filed by LNS LLC. (Morris, Matthew) (Entered: 07/21/2009)

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