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Yahoo! Finance: Investors Lately Siding With Linux In SCO Group’s Linux Legal Fight

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 3, 2004

“Critics call the drop a sign of trouble in SCO’s plans to cash
in on its Unix operating system, which Linux allegedly copies.
Investors, they say, are losing faith that SCO can prod Linux users
into paying license fees to avoid lawsuits.

“‘Win or lose, that outcome is at least a couple of years away,’
said Dion Cornett, a Decatur Jones analyst who since January has
been recommending that investors short the stock. ‘In the interim,
we know the company is going to burn through its cash
balance…'”

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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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