SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing

Stony Stevenson writes "SCO Group CEO Darl McBride is now claiming that competition from Linux was behind the company's filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 'In a court filing in support of SCO's bankruptcy petition, McBride noted that SCO's sales of Unix-based products "have been declining over the past several years." The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix.""

Comments

Tough noogies

[RollingThunder]

I fail to see the part of law where he's guaranteed to have a business model that works no matter what may compete with him.

oh yeah?

[zsouthboy]

I, horse-and-buggy manufacturer, am being put out of business by those damn dirty car manufacturers!

Re:oh yeah?

[Duhavid]

They self-manufacture. All you need are two of them.
Not just any two, though, curiously enough.
We have not figured that part out yet.

We will stay on it, so to speak, till we do.

Competition killed SCO.

[khasim]

McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix."

So ..... McBride is blaming competition?

Damn Microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn Microsoft and their support of Linux!

Excuse me...

[curmudgeous]

...while I laugh maniacally.

Re:Oh that Darl McBride!

[Billosaur]

Does anyone worry his next job will be working for their company?

Citing his vast experience, General Motors has announced Darl McBride is being named CEO, in hopes of ramping up flagging sales of GM products by suing Honda and Ford.

Damn users, running away when we sue them!

[KWTm]

The slump, McBride said, "has been primarily attributable to significant competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux." McBride listed IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems as distributors of Linux or other software that is "aggressively taking market share away from Unix."

Furthermore, McBride also noted, "These alternate distributors neglect to sue their customers, a service which we provide for our own customers, and thus they are able to undercut our price of $699 per customer. Despite making a concerted effort to protect our intellectual property through the legal system, IBM has failed to buy us out, so the expected funds did not materialize which had been earmarked for expansion plans for my summer cottage --I mean, er, corporate conference facilities.

"We expect our recovery to be delayed somewhat while we initiate the appeals procedure. At that point, we anticipate a healthy rebound, as our business partner tells one of those investment firms to give us more money.

"Even though shares of our stock cost less than an order of French fries at McDonald's, we want to allay any concerns about being delisted for having a low price. Our accountants have said ... er, I mean ... our accountant has said that we can simply do a stock merge, to have fewer shares, each of which cost more. As the price drops further and we merge more shares, we anticipate that it will be at least one week before all the shares are merged into a single share that costs $1.30. By that time, we should have identified another customer whom we can sue. It should not take too long to identify since we don't have a very long list to look through."

Re:Caldera to SCO: Backing the wrong source

[Curtman]

I used Caldera for a while and it certainly wasn't too bad. I remember the install being rather easy

Yeah, and it let you play pacman while you waited for it to install. That was the most innovative thing Caldera ever did as far as I'm concerned.