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BusinessWeek: The most hated company in tech
Submitted by Mark Luo; posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004
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Here's a good overview, by Jim Kerstetter, of the state of affairs vis-a-vis the SCO Group:
``He can't say he wasn't warned. In June, 2002, when Darl McBride was getting ready to take over as chief executive at struggling Caldera International Inc. in Lindon, Utah – later renamed SCO Group Inc. – he mused that claiming ownership of some of the underlying code in the popular Linux computer operating system could keep the company afloat. Even though Caldera's revenues were declining, it was losing $5 million per quarter, and its stock had slid below the $1 NASDAQ delisting price, the reaction of outgoing CEO Ransom Love was instantaneous. `Don't do it,' Love says he told McBride. `You don't want to take on the entire Linux community.'
``....But who stands to gain the most from an SCO win? Microsoft. Linux is the primary force standing between Microsoft and domination of the computer world. The software giant is happily fanning customers' fears with an anti-Linux campaign while pumping money into SCO. Even though neither company has disclosed a dollar figure, sources close to SCO say Microsoft has spent more than $12 million on SCO licenses. Microsoft says it needs the licenses because it sells technology that allows its customers to run applications that were designed for Unix, the operating system Linux was modeled on. Critics believe it is just helping SCO finance its lawsuit.''
Full story:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_05/b3868104_mz063.htm
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