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Tim Bray noticed something I blipped over the other day. There's been a set of stories claiming that MS is funding SCO's lawsuits. Now, I have no idea whether there's anything to that story or not, although I have my doubts - it's the sort of thing that would look very, very bad to a lot of people - judges especially. The interesting thing is how MS responded:

They went to Scoble to get the message out. I guess that they realized something simple - a net rumor could only be fought properly in the same medium.