Software company SCO Group Inc., which is suing IBM and trying to extract royalties from other Linux users, reported on Wednesday a wider quarterly loss as revenue fell and costs increased.

The Lindon, Utah-based, company, which claims that Linux, the operating system that can be copied and modified freely, is based on the Unix software it owns, said its fiscal first-quarter net loss, after paying preferred dividends, was $2.25 million, or 16 cents per share, compared with a loss of $724,000, or 6 cents per share, a year earlier.

Revenue for the quarter, ended Jan. 31, fell to $11.4 million from $13.5 million.

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