Darl McBride Leaving SCO? 126
JoGiles writes "Linux-watch is reporting that while The SCO Group may go on to pursue its plans with a $100 million buyout, it will do so without its longtime CEO Darl McBride. Buried in the proposed MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Unix vendor and Linux litigator SCO and SNCP (Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners) is the note that "upon the effective date of the Proposed Plan of Reorganization, the existing CEO of the Company, Darl McBride, will resign immediately.""
settle in for a long ride (Score:5, Insightful)
Lawsuits around the GPL and Linux codebase will become a permanent fixture. Our dreams of a single case to finalize up everything nice and tidy are never going to come true. I have every confidence that Open Source will survive, and the GPL will remain intact, but the lawsuit will always be there-- there's just too much potential money sloshing around, and law schools keep pumping out the evil.
He will not leave a poor man (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:settle in for a long ride (Score:3, Insightful)
Except for that quotation that often gets mentioned here: "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win", or something like that.
They can't remain locked in step 3 forever.
SCO is a strawman (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Luck for SCO. (Score:3, Insightful)
and in the higher end, even on open patforms like sparc, it's tough to beat HP/IBM/Sun.
since the days of old SCO (now tarantella), they always operated on a niche. now this niche disapeared, or was taken by the newcomers. old SCO realized that, got rid of the unix business and wen't on selling applications until they were bought by Sun.
if the new SCO (former caldera) had did the same, using their unix business to finance the development of other kinds of software, phase out the unix business, maybe they wouldn't be in this situation.
Re:settle in for a long ride (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Pending approval... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:settle in for a long ride (Score:5, Insightful)
In a way it was quashed in about 6 months. Based on their stock price [yahoo.com] the fairy tale was over quickly as it became apparent to any rational being that it was all BS. And requesting the code was the most obvious blow to their case as any argument against pointing to the publicly viewable code was simple nonsense.
Other than a few "journalists" with questionable credibility no sane person believed a word coming out of tSCOg's mouth pieces once they refused to show the code. And the ultimate blow was when the judge explained how close they came to losing the entire case on a summary judgment because they failed to produce even the most minute amount of evidence [silicon.com] to support their reasoning for being in court in the first place. That statement from the judge was based in part on all the outrageous claims the tSCOg mouth pieces had been spewing in the media and their failure to simply show the code.
Yes it has dragged on for years, and yes it cold drag on for more years, but the game was up long ago and most people know that. Now all we can hope for is that IBM and Novell will be willing to continue spending cash on the lawsuits long enough to ensure the perps and backers of this scam lose significant face.
And you are right, no matter how this ends it will never be the end, there are several people making massive profits who feel threatened by open source and they will continue to fund idiotic attacks like this as long as its a financially viable option for them. There are also the rabid anti-FOSS individuals who will rant until the end of time because they are so enamored by the likes of Microsoft that they'll believe and rabidly support every piece of FUD they are spoon fed.
Yeah, its not over, and we'll never hear the end of it. But life goes on.
Re:thank goodness (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not the real bad guy (Score:5, Insightful)
Bruce
Re:Pending approval... (Score:3, Insightful)
His early leave is not so much wanted. This way he will probably get out of view with his ill-gotten money.
Of course, i might be wrong, i'm just one of the above mentioned audience.