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SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing
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SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says competition from the open source Linux operating system was a major reason why the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday.
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.”
Damn Microsoft and their support of Linux!
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So it was the competition that is forcing them to close, eh? I’d have thought it would have been all the money they wasted on the legal fees from their frivolous law suits rather than investing in ongoing development of their products…