SCO has posted a loss of $2.4 million for the quarter that ended July 30th, largely in part to its failing SCO Source initiative and rising legal costs in its cases against IBM, Novell, and others over what it claims to be unlawful inclusion of its intellectual property in Linux. The resulting licensing program, known as SCO Source, has only brought in $32,000 in revenues. SCO claims that licensing with the company will result in legal immunity from its legal department, but many analysts in the industry view the initiative as a groundless threat. Alongside rising legal costs, lower revenues from SCO's UNIX products are also to blame for the overall decrease in revenues from this same quarter last year.
News source: CNet News.com
News source: CNet News.com
Die SCO die.
It is amusing to remember the many comments in here when the lawsuit was first announced. A lot of anti-Linux people supported the SCO position back then.
Even SCO has changed their claims and have dropped the "code-copying thieves" bit, and it is now mostly a contractual dispute between them and IBM, with legal wrangling over the definition of "derivitave works".
1) They lost all credibility in the business world.
2) They have lost profitibility (now that folks are realizing that there is no reason to fear SCO).
3) They are dying a slow, painful death.
The best possible thing to have happen at this point is to simply exclude SCO from new technology support, which will seal their fate. Hell, they couldn't even come up with a decent desktop manager in 15 years..... to hell with them!
Last edited by 36150 on 10 Sep 2005 - 02:31
die damn it
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