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SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing


SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says sales of Unix-based products have been declining over the past several years, mainly because of Linux.

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."



 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, September 20 2007 @ 13:33:44 EDT (369 reads)
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Microsoft the enemy to Red Hat and Linux community


Microsoft's deal with Novell has been followed by Ballmer seemingly extending the olive branch to Linux leader Red Hat. However, Red Hat, like others in the Linux community, see Microsoft's moves as containing a veiled threat and just a means to get revenue for nothing.
 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, November 17 2006 @ 20:23:26 EST (182 reads)
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Court Puts SCO's Suit Against AutoZone on Hold


AutoZone used SCO's OpenServer version of Unix, then switched to Red Hat's version of Linux three years ago. In its motion to have the court put a hold on the lawsuit, AutoZone claimed that SCO had warned the company it would be discontinuing support for OpenServer.
 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, July 16 2004 @ 14:56:04 EDT (199 reads)
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SCO's Suit: A Match Made in Redmond?


Just as the legal battle over Linux was about to become even more expensive, Microsoft suggested that a hedge fund invest in the outfit
For months, rumors have swirled around the Web alleging that Microsoft helped finance a small Utah software company's suit against IBM and two corporations that use Linux software. BusinessWeek has learned that Microsoft did not put up the money, but did play matchmaker for SCO Group and BayStar Capital, a San Francisco hedge fund which made a $50 million investment in SCO last October.
 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Saturday, April 17 2004 @ 21:31:20 EDT (194 reads)
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SCO acts as Microsoft shill to attack Linux


IN CASE you have had your head in the proverbial sand, over the past week, the already listing SCO case had the air let out of it. The whiney leak you heard when Eric Raymond published the Halloween X memo suddenly turned into a big flappy farty sound. Mike Anderer, the 'brains' behind the MS 'not investment' into MS spilled the beans.
 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Wednesday, March 17 2004 @ 22:39:07 EST (165 reads)
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Investment firm confirms Microsoft link to SCO


update Investment company BayStar Capital has confirmed ties between two Linux foes, saying Thursday that a Microsoft referral led to $50 million in BayStar funding for the SCO Group.
 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Monday, March 15 2004 @ 10:13:53 EST (175 reads)
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SCO confirms MS 'smoking gun' email is genuine


The SCO Group has confirmed that the email attributed to long-time pal and former colleague of Darl McBride, Mike Anderer, is genuine. But it says that Eric Raymond's characterization of this as "a smoking gun" - implying Microsoft is behind SCO's legal campaign against Linux - is incorrect. Raymond published the leaked email on his opensource.org site this morning, and claims it reveals "the extent of SCO's sock-puppet relationship to its masters in Redmond", according to Raymond.
 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Friday, March 05 2004 @ 10:19:15 EST (221 reads)
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Email 'leak' suggests SCO got up to $100m from MS


An email apparently leaked from SCO suggests that SCO is far more dependent on Microsoft financial backing than previously thought. If genuine, it means that the company has already received something approaching $100 million, and that Microsoft has substantially larger sums, which it would by preference wish to transfer indirectly, available.
 
 
  Posted by linuxwiz on Thursday, March 04 2004 @ 10:53:35 EST (192 reads)
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