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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.'"
I don't think that word means what I want it to...
-- Sig under construction...
>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?"
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.
Agreed. Call me when the shareholder lawsuit gets filed (if ever).
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Call me when the SEC goes after them. I won't hold my breath.
Bruce Perens.
I'm uninstalling my Caldera Desktop in protest.
I don't know about that. I kinda lean towards the Former Iraqi Information Minister, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (AKA Baghdad Bob)
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Better not go swimming then.
My Sig: SEGV
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!
They killed a man for fucks sake! This is no time to be trolling!
No, but neither did any of those involved in the Rwandan genocide.
Oh man, so close to a Godwin and yet you didn't go all the way!
Remember at the end of the first Star Wars when Luke is jamming down the trench with Vader and his crew looking to bust a cap in his ass but Solo lays the smack down and Vader gets bitch slapped and they blow up the Death Star and they cut back to Vader recovering from a triple lutz doing a "WTF"?
Darl = Darth
Hope that clears it up for you.
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
Quoth Archangel Michael :
As a congregational leader...
Holy crap. I'd think a being like yourself would have better things to do than post on Slashdot.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
I advocate any form of violence against anyone.
I would, however, like to see him prosecuted, and be justly stripped of his riches, and to do a long stint behind bars. And Mr. Yarro too.
Bruce Perens.
Darth Vader intelligent? He accepted the Darth Vader job shortly after killing his predecessor at the order of his new boss. The retirement plan was not only very bad, it was potentially very early.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
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.