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A Tale of Two SCOs

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 16, 2007

“Everyone is focusing on the death sentence that was handed to
SCO last Friday. But that was really a mere formality. SCO has been
dead for quite some time. Such is the fate of those who live by
litigation and not by making good products.

“If you have your doubts about this, just look at this press
release from last week about SCO selling their mobile technology to
a candidate in a Canadian provincial government election. Had this
been Barack Obama, then I would have thought twice before writing
this piece. But when a sale to an unknown Canadian politician
merits a press release, with all due respect to the gentleman from
Ontario, you would tend to doubt the company is bursting at the
seams from sales revenue…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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