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SCO Terminates Darl McBride
bpechter writes "Linux Today reports SCO has terminated Darl McBride and linked to the SCO 8K SEC report. The report found also at the SCO site and states: 'the Company has eliminated the Chief Executive Officer and President positions and consequently terminated Darl McBride.'"
Don't let the door hit you in the ass!
Sucka
WTF? Over?
... to say Hahahahaha?
I don't think that word means what I want it to...
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>SCO has terminated Darl McBride
That's a bit harsh. Couldn't they just have fired him?
Evil people are out to get you.
"terminated" can mean so many more interesting things.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
The guy gave us grief for years and no doubt socked away millions on what he got from kiting their stock. He and Ralph Yarro (the owner) get away scott free, and let's not forget that besides the money there are the two suicides connected with this case: Val Kreidl Noorda and Rob Penrose.
Bruce Perens.
He'll be back.
With a track record like that, who wouldn't want to hire him!
His unmatched ability to ruin a legit business and substitute it with litigation will impress banks and insurance companies the world over.
For some background, Darl McBride was the CEO who saw the Linux company SCO through some of the hardest times the company ever went through. As CEO, McBride redefined SCO so as to make it one of the most talked-about computer companies ever. His leadership pushed the SCO reputation to limits most companies never reach.
SCO is a company for the history books nowadays, but just a few years ago it was one of the most influential companies around, garnering interest and vile from MS and a host of Linux vendors. They will be missed.
Wait, they fired the best publicist in the history of the company, perhaps one of the best in the history of the tech industry? Why on EARTH would they do that? Now they've got nothing left!
Or have I just been brainwashed by the "no such thing as bad publicity" crowd?
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
"Darl McBride, chief executive of SCO Group Inc., says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month."
So, did he ever get use that gun against the people who terminated him, I wonder?
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,595047068,00.html?pg=1
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
"The Company is also looking to raise additional funding and sell non-core assets"
Translation: The company is looking at further litigation, and selling off all software development divisions.
He'll probably just get a cushy job with his buddy Mr. Yarrow's merry band of censorship enthusiasts.
I'm uninstalling my Caldera Desktop in protest.
KARMA.
I guess the question is when is SCO going to die? I know it is close to Halloween but this is one zombie that needs a bullet in the head!!
This is sad but I wish him good luck!
There, fixed it for ya.
The good part of this is that he stuck around long enough to run the company into the ground!
kill -9 `pgrep darl_mc_bride`
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Yeah, it wasn't a real termination...oh well "the boot" is a step in the right direction I suppose!
with caricatures of Darl McBride, Jack Thompson, and Fred Phelps.
"Ding, dong, the witch is dead! Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!"
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
The stock (SCOXQ) is at 13 cents.
I still don't understand how it could have value other than zero.
Dave Barnes 9 breweries within walking distance of my house
Now, they just need to get rid of Chris Sontag, who publicly brags that he was the architect behind the attack on Linux in the media. A company I used to work for hired him temporarily for business development. On his first day there, he actually thought he'd earn points from the software engineers by telling us about his attack on Linux. Needless to say, he didn't last very long at our company, where we primarily used Linux as our dev platform.
sig: sauer
Dear Darl McBride:
I would like to interview you for a position I have. The application requires a licence that costs just $699.
Signed,
All future potential employers
Maybe SCO got rid of Darl because the company doesn't need an executive any more. It needs a lawyer to manage litigation, because the big lawsuit (such as it is) is the only asset of SCO.
If you're not making, only suing, then it makes sense that your corporate boss should just be a lawyer to manage the lawsuit.
SCO's new slogan: "We're a big, lean litigating machine!"
I think Darl McBride terminated SCO, only then SCO fired Darl McBride.
As Voltaire put it: "He was a kind and generous man. Provided of course that he is really dead." Uhm, not dead yet? Just laid off? What a pity...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Finally. Too bad even that can't save the company. Not that anyone cares.
-m
http://www.invisik.com
Nuff said!
Which is a pretty sad commentary.
What, that he thinks people are out to get him and that carrying a gun will make a difference if they are? That he thinks it's something to brag about?
The quoted text didn't indicate that he had any rational reason to take those actions.
I mean, really... I've had death threats from disagreeing with someone on Usenet about technical details of the process of creating new groups. This is the Internet, that kind of thing happens. You can't take it seriously.
I know a devout orthodox Christian family that suffered a suicide of one of its members. One of the worst parts for them was the way that the church that they'd been part of, and served, for all of their lives turned away from them.
Bruce Perens.
inflammatory
Pronunciation: \in-fla-m-tor-\
Function: adjective
Date: circa 1711
1 : tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult : seditious
2 : tending to inflame or excite the senses
3 : accompanied by or tending to cause inflammation
— inflammatorily \-fla-m-tor--l\ adverb
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-kgj
The company that no longer exists just fired the guy who ran it into the ground?
someone check the connection to the trustees and former board...i think theres an unacceptably high latency...
Good people go to bed earlier.
They killed a man for fucks sake! This is no time to be trolling!
Inflammable
1. Capable of burning; easily set on fire.
2. (figuratively) Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Darl's employee discount on the Linux license...
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
They don't have a big enough cannon. :)
"Inflammatory" has an extra poetic ring to me -- Merriam-Webster's definition includes that lovely word "seditious", which isn't really applicable here, but what the hell? -- but "inflammable" is fine.
All of this is metaphorical -- the important thing is not accuracy but insult.
-kgj
Darl was hauling in a pretty pile for driving SCO into oblivion.
Last year while in BK he hauled in $492k.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000095013409004254/v51630e10vkza.htm
This from a 60 person company. That was losing money like crazy.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000095013409001443/0000950134-09-001443-index.htm
$13M revenue, $8.7M loss
Nice 0.5/13 -> 1/26 of the revenue was paid to Darl
Wikipedia's entry on SCO reads like a novel comprised of cheats, deceits, and betrayals. What a long, strange trip its been. Good thing I ended up NOT working for them, as I had a chance to back in the early nineties. I really wanted to as it would have been my first regular paid gig in OSS. Wow, hindsite, huh?
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
it's they least they could do to reward his fateful service.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
.....is if the news was delivered to Darl in an Austrian accent by a huge guy in sunglasses and black leather.
Guys like this always pop up again somewhere. We have not seen the last of Darl McBride's assholery ... not by a long shot.
He has CEO on his resume and I'm sure there are some "benchmarks" that he hit as part of his contract; meaning, he was a good CEO by those people's definition. He'll get another job somewhere.
It must be nice being at the top.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
Those firms are likely to hire based on results and he LOST.
Darl McBride = LOSER
LOSER = Darl McBride
Ta ta sucker.
Hope you like being a dog catcher, where its not an elected position.
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What was that again? Last time I checked, Darl McBride was busy terminating SCO. :)
--Bud
Personally, I liked "set off by the slightest excuse" from inflammable. It seems to define his excessively litigious nature nicely.
Heh, that's good too -- "slightest excuse," indeed!
-kgj
(as with Sir Robin's minstrels)
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Enderle is dead, Darl has his balls cut off so Linux enemy #1 because Senor Miguel of Redmond.
I am confused by the moral aspects of this headline. Is moving into the assassination field a step down from patent trolling, or merely a lateral move?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
...for Moffat's job at IBM.
The bad news is they just fired him, they didn't really terminate him in the "Arnold" sense of the word. And, of course, he has plenty of ill gotten gains as a result of all of this.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
If anyone, and I mean anyone gets a copy of his resume sent to their HR department...they must post it.
I apologize for the brusque tone, but this is not optional - you have to do it. In it's entirety, unedited.
I'll bet it reads like Kim Jong Il wrote it.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Circular Reasoning - FTW!
This might have earned them a few karma points if they had done this half a decade ago, it's a little too late now.
Darl was just the mouthpiece of SCO. There's no way they're going to let go of this when there's still the slim, slightest possibility of money to be made from the creation of a product that they DID NOT create. This is purely a PR move, their overall strategy is still the same -- in the lack of actual quality products of their own, litigate and attempt to steal someone else's -- or at the very least get nice fat settlements and royalties.
You'll note that in taking the moral high ground and "terminating" Darl McBride, SCO as a company has not announced ANY intention to refund the companies who purchased their fraudulent Linux "licenses" before a court decision was ever made. Think they'll ever see any of that money?
Well you c the world goes about how the moon is. Like the ocean for example the ocean waters go on how the moon i s.
Depends on which Terminator they used.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Only if you consider a typo to be as bad as a grammatical error. One results from imperfect typing, while the other from imperfect education.
In other words, what you are saying is: typing = education
Likely he will never be homeless.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
You mean ...
1. SCO still exists?
2. They have been paying Darl and friends good money all this time?
No comment. I'm too baffled to say anything.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
I am confused by the moral aspects of this headline. Is moving into the assassination field a step down from patent trolling, or merely a lateral move?
I'm not sure (not being a lawyer and all) but I think they're trying to redeem themselves.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
no?
Ok guys, our buddy Darl needs a job. Who's hiring? ;)
"CAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNN!!!"
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
epic failure.
Gosh, of all the stupid typos I could do. Please read that as "I do not advocate any form of violence against anyone." I don't even know how the heck that happened.
Bruce Perens.
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I am a sociopathic janitor, you insensitive clod!
Careful there, or I'll grab a rag and clean the toilets, then clean your coffee mug!
And I have keys to everything!
Yeah, I see what you mean!
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The California Republican Party has just announced a fresh new face running in the Republican Gubernatorial Primaries ...
( You guessed it - Daryl "McFly" McBride ... )
his brother Larry and his other brother Darl?
The monster has become sentient! Run for your lives!!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Oh for the love of.... sarcasm, my friend. Sarcasm. I was writing from the delusional point of view of the sociopaths running things. The funny thing is that you understood every single point I was trying to make, except that you thought I was actually serious.
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Don't let the door hit you in the ass!
'Cause I don't want ass prints on my new door!
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The article states that not only has Darl been fired, but the positions of President and CEO have been eliminated in their entirety. Are those not required positions in a corporate structure?
That's got to be IBM, right? Oh, IBM is the "Big Blue House", I forgot. Sorry, Bear.
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Which brings up a good point - why doesn't IBM buy them up (or at least a controlling interest) and finally drop the curtain on SCO's last act? It's got to cost less than any additional litigation.
They have a poison pill. New investors get max. 15% of votes
whatever their share.
Yes, there is much room for reform of U.S. prisons. Of course all law is enforced with the threat of violence, the difference is that there is supposed to be a system of justice guiding that violence. It's not perfect.
Bruce Perens.
If the patent doesn't cross the line of scrimmage then I believe this would be a lateral to assassination. In this case it was a failed play action fake that resulted in a 4th down turn over to the bankruptcy courts. Had the patent seen a 3rd down conversion to a first down we'd still be in play, so long as the assassin didn't shoot the ball.
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
Darth is pretty much taken, at least as long as Cheney is alive. :(
Mini-Darth, then.
"Just Evil enough!" :)
Truth isn't Truth - Guliani
Bravo! Best post ever!
Three years - almost to the day! - since I've commented on Slashdot. It was always the same things: trolls, Microsoft, transparent aluminum, and SCO.
I come back just to see if it still smells the same, and what do I find? SCO fires Darl McBride. WTF?
On the one hand, this is the day I've long awaited. We all knew it was coming, and that was the only sweet thing about SCO.
On the other hand, I can't believe I left for three years and yet on the front page the very first time I look is ANOTHER GODDAMN SCO STORY. Haven't all of these people gone to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison yet?
And of course the first comment in that SCO story is a troll. See ya in another three years!
Ce n'est pas un vrai mouvement de robot!
If you left out the GNAA/Goatse link you proberbly be modded funny.
Speaking of Goatse, I am kind of sad to hear McBride go at this point in time because I was looking forward to debt collectors doing something like that to him.
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Ah, I was in the mood for a bit of gall, vinegar, acid and venom.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
What?... Oh... Nevermind.... bitch!
With EXTREME PREJUDICE???
Martin Luther headed the Protestant Reformation, and thus founded Protestantism.
King Henry VIII wanted a divorce, and thus founded the Church of England, aka the Anglican church, aka the Episcopal church.
The latter is what I happen to have been raised in, and I have no illusions about its foundation. However, its principles have always seemed to me to match much, much more closely with what the Bible says Jesus taught than Rome's do.
Dan Aris
Fun. Free. Online. RPG. BattleMaster.
Forget the guy. The guy doesn't matter. What matters is the legal outcome. And it is FAR from over.
Just 2 months ago an appeals court overturned the Unix ownership judgement and sent it to trial. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/sco/
Me thinks you Linux religious types don't care about facts.
I grew up more or less on the 'tracks'.
Several of my childhood friends took 'extended vacations at states expense' one in a max security (he hit a guard). They were in their early 20s (but not pussies) at the time.
Prison rape is fairly rare unless you are a child molester, hurt a woman or child, are a snitch or seriously offend the wrong people.
Most prisoners are there to do their time and get out. You have much more to fear from the guards.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Do you ever doubt? Ever?
If you are happening to doubt when, oh say, a meteorite decides to target your cerebellum and you die while not actually being certain and trusting, wouldn't God consider you a separate?
On the other hand, if you are full of trust and invitation to God and Jesus and you decide that you just can't cut it here on Earth and that it would be a good thing and you suicide, would not God consider you faithful and faultless?
So, in effect, it *does* matter how you die.
Except that no rule set unambiguously covers all scenarios so it really doesn't. namene?
Caldera was a fantastic company to work for until they bought SCO. I was more than happy to jump ship a few weeks after the acquisition. Ransom Love was doing great things with Caldera, and the SCO purchase dragged the company down. Shortly after the acquisition, SCO employees were brought in left and right, while many Caldera employees left for other companies, huge bran drain. Coupled with the inevitable layoffs, I would have been surprised to see any pro-Linux people remaining there after a year of the Caldera/SCO merge.
.... and wants to strangle Darl...
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
inflammable |inflambl|
adjective
easily set on fire : inflammable and poisonous gases.