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SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing

Posted by Zonk on from the comment-write-themselves dept.

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.""

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  1. Ah poor McBride needs a Waaaambulance by Trauma_Hound1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Would he like some cheese with that whine?

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  2. Carriage Makers Blame Automobile for Slump by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about some real news?

    1. Re:Carriage Makers Blame Automobile for Slump by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      "Off-Topic" ???
      It migh be sarcastic, but it is very much on-topic! I hope in the future I can expect better moderation than that!

  3. Pfft, whatever. by Pojut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the immortal words of Heavy Weapons Guy, Cry Some More.

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  4. Satire Is Dead? by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Must be... or maybe some modder has no sense of humor.