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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...
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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.
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.
I doubt he'll cry too much over it. His little stock kiting scam has made him somewhat independently wealthy, and barring a lawsuit, I doubt he'll have to give the money back.
OTOH, I doubt that no one in the tech industry (save for maybe Microsoft) would ever hire him for anything.
(the Linux Foundation could maybe use a janitor, but...)
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
"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
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.
"OTOH, I doubt that no one in the tech industry (save for maybe Microsoft) would ever hire him for anything." ....except to repeat his SCO adventures with another expendable company.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
I think they've already sold the door.
He's received millions in compensation during this whole pump-and-dump scam. I'm sure he's crying all the way to the bank.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You don't even need to "translate". The next sentence in the TFPressRelease reads:
(emphasis mine)
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.
Guys like this always pop up again somewhere. We have not seen the last of Darl McBride's assholery ... not by a long shot.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
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.
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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!
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.
The SCO stock last traded at 13 cents. That does not mean that anyone will buy for 13 cents. Volume is less than 5000 shares a day, you can see the individual trades in the chart. In fact the main reason people would buy SCO at this point is because they had previously sold the stock short and want to buy to cover so they can recognize the profit this tax year rather than be forced to recognize the profit when the company goes bankrupt. Looks to me like today's trading means that someone paid $700 to close a SCO short. After that there are probably a bunch of pump and dump scammers out there and folk who recon that maybe IBM will decide its cheaper to buy SCO out than continue litigation. The price of a single share is not the same as the proportional value of the company, nor should it be. Real companies do not increase or decrease in value by 10% in a single day. The market prices of shares can over or under value the company significantly. At $13 a share the marketcap of SCO is about $2.5M. That is more than the company is worth but less than you would need to pay to buy the company.
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They killed a man for fucks sake! This is no time to be trolling!
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
Early '90s SCO would have been Santa Cruz Operations which sold the "UNIX" business to Caldera which renamed itself SCO in 2003 to muddle the ownership issues. The original SCO renamed itself to Tarantella and was bought by SUN which is now Oracle.
It was/is a great mess.
Or anyone wanting a CEO who would do anything to keep their stock prices up in their failing business.
Platform advocacy is like choosing a favorite severely developmentally disabled child.
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.
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
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.
why doesn't IBM buy them up (or at least a controlling interest) and finally drop the curtain on SCO's last act?
Because IBM is a big pockets corp. They have a policy of defending against bogus IP suits rather than buying them off - because if they ever bought one off they'd be inundated with more.
Thus they and the legal system have played "mill of the gods" to SCO's grain and ground them slowly but exceedingly fine.
Now that SCO is in receivership and their antagonist-in-chief is in the unemployment line, they MAY consider their point proven. Or they may continue to grind until every i is dotted and t is crossed in the legal record - and any remaining stockholders (who should have known better and restrained Darryl, rather than cheering him on and hoping for a piece of IBM) are perhaps left with zero.
Their call.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
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.
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.