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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. Slashdot is a fortune teller by Karem+Lore · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If only McBride had read Slashdot before embarking on this most ridiculous litigation of IBM et al. then he would of realise way back then that this was the case. Yes, Linux is taking market share...There is a very GOOD reason behind this and it is not because SCO Unix is very good!

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