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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. SCO Could Have The Last Laugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    SCO doesn't get that Linux is just a patsy for IBM & Co. The Slashodot crowd fap themselves silly when big business sucks on their teat but it's all flim flam. Linux is a great way of locking out other vendors and having a ready made community kiss your ass. Google are playing the same trick but their whipping boy is Microsoft.

    I'd put the SCO brand up front and kiss some ass, milking Linux code and community for every goddamn cent I could screw. Chuck in a few proprietory applications and drivers down the line so the GPL squad are totally fucked when they try and piggy back your efforts, and gently carve them out of the action. He who laughs last?

    Go on SCO. Rape the ass of these whining ladymen. You know you want to.