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McBride Says No More Lawsuits From SCO
thephotoman writes "Well, Darl McBride gave an interview to IDG News Services in which he said that SCO is not going to sue any more customers. They do bring up the issue of the SCOsource Linux licensing, and how much of a failure it has been. Instead, they plan to start marketing their flavor of Unix. However, as he's not dropping the current lawsuits, there's no good reason to believe him on this change in strategy."
Not suing customers, particularly your own, is usually somewhere high on the list of Winning Business Strategies.
"Smithers, how much did our iron-fisted grab for licensing fees get us?"
"$11,000, last quarter, Sir."
"Ehhxcellent! They must be crowding around like lemmings, eager to hand over their money!"
"Uh, No Sir, it cost us millions to get that much."
"In the parlance of that oafish brute Homer Simpson, D'oh!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Someone gave McBride the wrong quote. He actually meant to quote Hudson, from Aliens:
"Well that's great, that's just fuckin' great man, now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now man... That's it man, game over man, game over, man! Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"
What's coming up next, Duke Nukem Forever or Doom 3- .... oh wait...
I guess the acid finally wore off. Spend millions to extract THOUSANDS!!!!!! in licensing fees. I am trully in awe of your threeleet business skillz, Darlzor.
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McBride says they wont sue their own customers any more, but those "communist, anti-american, pro-terrorist" linux users got them just desserts coming, ayuh.
In other words, now that they have no customers, they will only be sueing ex-customers.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
McBride: We've got to figure out a creative way to market our brand of Unix or Linux will wipe us out. Anybody know how our product is better then any Unix flavor or Linux. We're not leaving this room until we get some ideas!!!
*fast forward 12 hours later nothing said*
McBride's junior exec: Sir, I believe this is known as the "oh sh*t moment in business" sir...
...in bed
It's kind of like saying, "I'm sorry I kicked your dog, but I'm not going to be kicking any more dogs because it seems to get dog owners upset," while kicking the dog several times...
My personal opinion is that Darl actually loves Linux, and he's been working as hard as he can to, on Microsoft's dime, paint the anti-Linux crowd as raving maniacs... I mean, he's not really this broken, is he?
SCO has a product and engineers to maintain it? When the hell? I thought they were just a group of ninja-attack lawyers based out of a defunct Taco Bell store owned by a Microsoft operative . . . . .
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
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"However, as he's not dropping the current lawsuits, there's no good reason to believe him on this change in strategy."
That should read, "However, as it's Darl McBride, there's no good reason to believe him at all."
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
Both customers were sued...
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from a "Unix Port"
Aboard a sinking ship.
The mate was a mighty selling man
The skipper wasn't sure
Six passengers sat sail back then
For a legal language tour (a legal language tour)
The language started getting rough
The chrysler case was tossed (almost)
If not for the "courage" of the fearless crew
The lawsuits would be lost (the lawsuits would be lost)
The ship held ground on the shore of this
Old Mormon Desert Isle
With Billy Gates
And Ballmer too
Some millionaire
Named McBride
A Courtroom Star
McNealy and Canadians
Here on Darl McBride's Isle
TRANSLATOR ENGAGED:
There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
Quote "We think in the future, software developers are going to be more motivated by getting paid for their work rather than contributing and not getting paid."
Um. Ya. I haven't cared about getting paid so far. I'll think about that in the future.
Sheesh.
Judge: "Prosecution? You may present your case."
SCO Lawyer: "I know... KUNG-FU!! HHYYYAAAAHH!!"
Judge: "Uhh.. Defense? Yours?"
Linux Laywer: "We beleive the fact that the prosecution is attempting to break his desk in half with his forehead is representative of our case, your honour."
SCO Lawyer: "OOH!! This hurt head!! Must try, ancient technique! KKIIIAAAAAAAA--DDAAAARLLLL--!" *WHACK!* *Passes out*
Judge: "....um, case dismissed."
Hmmm. Damnit, now I wish I could actually see a ninja-attack lawyer in action... stupid overactive imagination...
Darl already made millions by inflating the SCO stock so I don't think that he gives a damn what happens to SCO now.
From what I've seen of insider sales figures, it doesn't seem that Darl has made millions for himself, only for the previous SCO management, which is probably what he is being paid for.
The other possibility is that the interviewer offered Darl a dollar bill and a couple of lines. Evidence from the linked article:
McBride [with rolled dollar bill in nose]: . . . It's really a situation of going back to the future, if you will. [Sniffff].
Linus was mostly right.
WTF? Aren't real lawyers banned from slashdot? you asshole, you're going to kill the market on free legal advice here...
First they came up with "The Plan": Don't buy our products and we won't sue you.
This failed and they came up with "The Other Plan": Buy our products and we will sue you.
They finally tried "The Other, Other Plan": If you don't buy our products we will sue you.
And they had a hit!
Perhaps SCO is not sueing any more customers because they've pretty much reached the end of their list of customers?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you