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McBride Says No More Lawsuits From SCO

Posted by michael on from the you've-been-served dept.

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."

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  1. His financial backers turn tail? by dhakbar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He must have lost his funding.

    It seems strange that he would give up for any other reason... he's shown himself to be hell-bent on his mission.

    1. Re:His financial backers turn tail? by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Insightful
      He must have lost his funding.

      Actually, Darl's backers lost their nerve before he lost his.

      Burning through a fat wad of cash in endless legal battles does tend to do that. Ask Ashton-Tate, if you ever see them again.

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      A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  2. Bottom line? by SIGALRM · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Though SCO's lawsuits against IBM Corp., Novell Inc., DaimlerChrysler AG and AutoZone Inc. have attracted a great deal of attention in the last year, they have not helped SCO's bottom line
    And a marketing push for SCO Openserver/Unixware will?
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    Sigs cause cancer.
  3. The beginning of the end... by sribe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is just confirmation that they have committed corporate suicide. I don't think they would do this unless they'd figured out that they have scared off prospective customers (and partners) and sabotaged their sales efforts. But if things have gotten to that point, McBride telling a magazine they're going to refrain from suing customers in the future has exactly zero chance of restoring enough trust in the company to revive their sales.

  4. "One question" by boots@work · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As The SCO Group Inc.'s reseller and developer community gathers for its annual SCO Forum convention in Las Vegas this week, one question on many attendees' minds will be whether the company's future will be as a software vendor or as a litigator.

    The answer is No, they do not have a future as a software vendor or litigator.

  5. Re:Wrong quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Wow... Aliens has a lot of apropriate quotes:
    Ellen Ripley: I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage!
  6. And the Wrights by CedgeS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or ask the Wright brothers. They sunk their company by investing all their time in litigation against competitors instead of development and innovation.

  7. Re:This f***ing meme is SO FRUSTRATING by boots@work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, to date SCO have not sued a non-customer in regard to Linux. Take home lesson: don't deal with SCO.

    However, they have subpoenaed various Linux contributors and other parties who didn't have any business relationship to SCO. In some cases this seems to be merely a fishing expedition or harrassment. Not as bad as a suit, but still not something I'd like to see in my mailbox.

    SCO have also sent letters to non-SCO-customer Linux users threatening a lawsuit, although they have not actually filed suit against one of them as far as we know. It would be accurate for the original poster to ask that SCO stop *threatening to sue* non-customers.

    So people should be precise in what they say about SCO, but SCO still suck. I welcome their new future as a Caldera (literally "crater").

  8. Re:Good Idea by gcaseye6677 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It makes a lot of business sense to migrate away from SCO. Who wants to be stuck with an unsupported operating system when SCO goes belly up?