The fediverse is going to suffer a hideous setback if Xitter goes into receivership, and they actually put a competent CEO in charge. It doesn’t make me feel good to say that, but I have a penchant for reality. It doesn’t mean it fails. But it sure will mean a much much longer trajectory.
Chapter 11 or 7 bankruptcy does not always move quickly.
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In 2003, the SCO Group claimed that the increasingly popular free Linux operating system contained substantial amounts of Unix code that IBM had improperly put there.
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Renamed to The TSG Group, the company converted to Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2012. A portion of the SCO v. IBM case continued on until 2021, when a settlement was reached for a tiny fraction of what The SCO Group had initially sued for.
@shoq Anyone going back when we've had a first class demonstration of how #proprietary#SaaSS in the hands of corposcum can be rapidly and trivially turned against its users is a fool.
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