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SCO Zombie McBride's New Plan For World Litigation
eldavojohn writes "Years after you thought it was all over, Groklaw is reporting that Darl McBride (ex-CEO of SCO) has formed a new company that is buying SCO's mobile business for peanuts — but he's also going to get 'certain Intellectual Property' with the deal. You may recall that McBride was the brains behind the Linux lawsuits that SCO launched and it appears he may be orchestrating an exit route where he escapes with some IP intact, in order to wreak havoc once again. Hopefully this is the part at the end of the movie where the zombie comes back to life one last time only to have the hero deliver the final final blow. When this news broke upon the investment world, SCO's stock skyrocketed a blistering 11%, bringing it up seven cents to a full seventy cents — a level which it has not achieved since 2007."
Indicates that the McBride is interested in brains... He's not. He's interested in trying to exploit patents that he had nothing to do with and not contributing anything back.
At the end the Zombie comes back, because you can't kill something that is already dead!
Oh and the zombie you thought was the last one, usually is not the last one. History repeats itself, folks.
$0.63 + $0.07 = $0.70
No, but $0.63 + $0.07 = $0.70 and .07/.63 is .111111 or about 11%. I think you misread.
Which is why the SEC should have gone after McBride and SCO. That this guy, after basically bilking investors (not that some of those investors didn't deserve it) in an obvious pump-and-dump isn't spending time in a Federal prison, but instead is free to start a new company that actually buys up some of SCO's alleged IP to start another round of "litigation as a business model" pump and dumps is beyond me.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
"You may recall that McBride was the brains behind the Linux lawsuits....."
The brains?!?!? Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
So it isn't legal to kill him, or have him killed. (So don't try this kids.)
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
the double tap.
You need to take some reading comprehension classes. The summary says that it rose $0.07 to reach $0.70, not that it rose from $0.07 to $0.70. So before the increse the stock price was $0.63. And if you do the math $0.07 is indeed 11% of $0.63.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
I think I need some more coffee this afternoon. :(
Actually considering the amount of money he has wasted or caused to be wasted, I would venture to say that the sociopath that he is should not be allowed to breed or to breath. But we don't always get what we want...
Having a habit of scanning headlines. I first read this as:
"Zombies Plan For World Liquidation"
Maybe I've been playing Left for a Dead a little too much. FML
"Darl McBride" just isn't a real name, people. You gotta come up with a more convincing villain name, like, say, "Gorgeous McRib."
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Next time you want first post, just check the "post anonymously" button and say "frosty piss", or cut and paste a GNAA troll, or say something about CmdrTaco's gay sex orgies (with goatse link!) or something of that nature...you'll get less abuse that way.
No, not the SCO business model. I mean the Darl McBride business model, which is to swindle investors into believing that he can accomplish something in the long run, pocketing as much money as he can, and moving on to the next busload of Wall Street suckers. As long as it keeps incrementing the value in his bank account fast enough, he'll keep doing it. Short of marooning him on a desert planet somewhere -- which entails its own risks -- there's not a lot anyone can do to keep him from grabbing the occasional headline with his latest antics.
Just be thankful that he isn't working that business model at the same scale as AIG, Bank of America, or Citibank.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
He's just pumping SCO again so he can make up for his losses. There's always a pool of sucker gamb... investors who will lap this shit up.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
...who is the zombie: SCO, Mc Bride, or both ?!?
You thought it went away forever. That they would never come back.
You Were Wrong.
I Still Know Whom You Sued Last Summer.
Coming in 2010 to a courtroom near You.
I am sure McBride has probably made quite a bit of money out of this little scam. This is an example of Ayn Rand greed ideology at its finest, and shows how someones wealth has little to do with how hard they work, otherwise people like Gates or McBride would be broke and Chinese factory workers would be millionaires. Your wealth depends on your ability to exploit others, and generally most millionaires have made their money that way, including legalised forms of this kind of exploitation of the working class. Ayn Rand ideologies are thinly veiled propogation fo ideas which are meant to allow corporate elites to exploit the working class to enrich the rich further and to drive the poor further into poverty. They then dupe ignorant rednecks into electing Randists into power, such as Republicans who proceed to do this. Thus we see in the US a shrinking middle clas, ruined economy while the elites make billions of dollars. THis is why it is time for major reforms of corporatoins to turn them into employee owned democracies foxued on the public good rather than enriching wealthy elites, and establishing maximum salaries for the employees of these corporations.
Really it should be illegal for principals in a bankrupt company to purchase any of that companies assets. In this case he is profiting from running the company into the ground by purchasing assets at cut rate prices with the money he syphoned off from the company.
Zombie Kill of the Week.
How much would it take to put this guy in deep freeze or drug induced coma while all the so-called patents run out... oh.. yeah copyright, oh shit. I hope the cryopumps hold out for awhile..
"Video games warped my mind and I truly believed Mr McBride was a zombie when I decapitated him with the chainsaw. As such I am not responsable for my actions as my lawyer Mr Jack Thomson will clearly show."
You have to use the shotgun and shoot them in the head! Shooting them with a handgun just pisses them off.
I still cannot find the droids I am looking for...
at least 11% more.
His way is 11% better than that.
It's only $35k!
I'll personally commit $100 to create a fund to outbid him.
Who's with me?
Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
Gahhh!!! Never forget Rule No. 4: Doubletap!
sup darl?
You know, it's morning here as I read this, and nothing makes me giggle more than a post by someone who misread the article, followed by ten or more posts showing the incorrect math used, examples and why the post is mislead.
I haven't worked out whether it's
a) Altruism - No my friend, you got this wrong, here is how you were meant to interpret the article.
b) Pack mentality - No brother, you need to read it correctly, if we all read it correctly, our slashpack will become the most powerful pack on earth and we will enjoy the good life.
(It starts going downhill from here)
c) Nitpicking - You silly slashdotter, you read it wrong, naaarrny naarny nar nar!
d) Douchebaggery - Check it out, I am so much smarter than you, I am like a million times smarter than you, I read it correctly! Here is how it's meant to be read. Now bask in my glory!
But whatever the case, it's amusing, and I don't think there are many other sites that give me both nerd news and giggles.
*sips coffee*
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McBride is obviously one of Rand's "Looters" who destroyed or drove out all the producers and innovators, thereby bankrupting the country. Wall Street, government and people like McBride are making a "prophet" out of Rand alright.
Hmm, Windows 7 Mobile edition is coming out soon. And the McBrideinator in moving into position for another attack - with mobile patents, perhaps partly based around the use of UNIX in a mobile platform.
Coincidence?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Carrying the vials themselves would likely be a violation, unless they were doing so as a personal demonstration of their faith, which would likely be protected unless they did it in the courtroom, which likely would not be protected.
Another solution would be to provide funding for faith-based initiatives to carry the holy water instead of the judiciary, but leave the initiative open to all faiths and denominations. I'm not sure if others (Hindus, for example) use holy water, or if it any more effective than good ol' Catholic holy water, but by leaving participation open to all, you would likely solve the Constitutional issues.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Having read Slashdot since its first year, I'm pretty sure it's mostly (c) and (d).
That is perhaps the most pretentious coffee-sip I have ever experienced in text form. My fedora is off to you.
His parent just forgot to join him. Now we have to wait for his parent to die, so init can inherit and join him.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Hey, now he'll go and drink eleven coffees at once instead of just one! You bloody murderer!
Ezekiel 23:20
..when there are further developments. I'll be at the Winchester.
According to the replies' timestamps, I think it was rather e) the lack of pessimistic locking on the comment being replied to, and the resulting race condition of quick arithmeticians who, unlike me, don't realize that a simple refresh to check that someone has indeed already corrected the numerical wrongdoer is often enough due to the excess supply of said arithmeticians.
Ezekiel 23:20
There is no such thing as a lack of pessimistic locking. First in, best dressed!
You never catch me alive
You know, it's morning here as I read this, and nothing makes me giggle more than a post by someone who misread the article, followed by ten or more posts showing the incorrect math used, examples and why the post is mislead.
I haven't worked out whether it's
a) Altruism - No my friend, you got this wrong, here is how you were meant to interpret the article.
b) Pack mentality - No brother, you need to read it correctly, if we all read it correctly, our slashpack will become the most powerful pack on earth and we will enjoy the good life.
(It starts going downhill from here)
c) Nitpicking - You silly slashdotter, you read it wrong, naaarrny naarny nar nar!
d) Douchebaggery - Check it out, I am so much smarter than you, I am like a million times smarter than you, I read it correctly! Here is how it's meant to be read. Now bask in my glory!
But whatever the case, it's amusing, and I don't think there are many other sites that give me both nerd news and giggles.
This really should be in the Slashdot FAQ.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Well said. One more mystery of slashdot cleared up - thanks.
What do they always tell you?! Hmm?!
You have to shoot these motherfuckers in the HEAD or they always come back.
Now we have to go with the nukes from orbit plan.
I was kicked out of my slashpack. I'm now a slashpack of one.
I drank what? -- Socrates
Most successful economy on the planet? How's the crack you're smoking on that cloud up there?
I often wonder how many people made small fortunes on short-selling SCO stock. We're talking about a company that was, at one point, trading around $20/share. It's now worth like 50 *cents* per share or something. That's a long fall, there was plenty of potential for someone to make a lot of money shorting the stock.
I even thought about trying that game, but I was too poor to play a rich-man's sport. That is, even though I was convinced that SCO was a good long-term short sell, the problem with shorting is that you can't always decide when to cover the short, and if someone called your short at the wrong time, you might've lost money. Still, I suspect *someone* made money on shortselling SCO (probably Darl and his buddy Ralph Yarro).
Investors are stupid! God damn it they're just begging to be defrauded! I bet if you started a company whose STATED GOAL was "Defraud investors of millions of dollars," people would invest in it! In fact, I should go do that RIGHT NOW! I should go start a company with the motto "We're not going to make anything, we're just going to take your money and run," announce that we're suing EVERYONE, and see how high the stock prices go. I wonder if Darl's free to run the thing. Hmm, and we're going to need a lawyer... What's Bois up to these days?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I'll see your beret and raise you a fez.
Awww c'mon, how would we here at /. have our "license" meme without old shitbag Mcbride? I can't believe nobody has posted it yet, so in the tradition of never letting a meme die here at /. I'll do it...
Pay your $699 license fee, you cock smoking teabaggers!
But seriously as long as there are patent trolls, copyright whores, and the district of East Texas, I'm sure McBride will continue to stick around being irritating, like a pimple on the ass of society. I'd say the bigger threat would be if old Ballmer gets a brain tumor and decides to go mutually assured destruction on Linux. Sure if big daddy IBM got involved it wouldn't be pretty for either side, but considering how much crap MSFT has patented over the years I'm sure they could send Linux developers scrambling to provide workarounds for the next half dozen years or so. Sure it would be suicidal and stupid, but after releasing the x360 with the whole RRoD problem I'd say there are some serious PHB levels of stupid in that company.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Having read Slashdot since its first year, I'm pretty sure it's mostly (c) and (d).
People talk about Slashdot's signal to noise ratio being low. I don't think they're counting the c and d posts you're referring to.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
How come we have /. posters who can't do math??
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
hindus use milk (you know, from cows). maybe cow dung is holy to them too. not sure, but let's assume it is.
that'd be fun. send zombie darl to bangalore, where he'd be received by a bunch of EDS helpdesk operators armed with super soakers loaded with milk and cow dung throwing slingshots.
i'd pay a pretty penny to watch on pay-per-view.
What ? Me, worry ?
What hasn't someone shot this asshole yet? I'm only partially kidding. In all seriousness, people like this man are dangerous.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
I've, on occasion, had fantasies about righting some of the wrongs in this world. I once had a dream about a Matrix-meets-Boondock Saints, where there were vigilantes taking out abusive, greedy corporate types.
McBride personifies the ideal target for this kind of thing. The man is a worm.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
Fixed that for you
Isn't it obvious? Msft financed the entire scox-scam. The entire thing is just a msft PR stunt. It is supposed to scare people away from using Linux, and it's supposed to scare companies away from contributing to Linux.
Think about it: how did scox intend to finance the mega-expensive lawsuit? Scox did not have that kind of money - not even close. Then in jumps msft with tens of millions of dollars, how convenient.
And why sue IBM? IBM was never even a Linux distributor. Hint: IBM had just contributed a file system to Linux, and that p!ssed msft off. If scox thought there was infringing IP in Linux, scox would have sued Redhat. The lawsuit is not supposed to be "won" in the conventional sense. The lawsuit is supposed to be dragged on and on. BTW: I think it's the 7 year anniversary of the original lawsuit.
Anybody who is familiar with how msft operates should recognize the MO right away. Has anybody noticed that thy usual msft shills - like Enderle - have been championing the scox since day one?
Darl, and his brother Kevin, are just a couple of Utah hicks who got lucky. They were never the brains behind anything.
You may recall that McBride was the brains behind the Linux lawsuits that SCO launched
What brains??
where he escapes with some IP intact
Repeat after me: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. AS. INTELLECTUAL. PROPERTY! BITSPACE. IS. NOT. MEATSPACE!
It’s a physically impossible concept. It’s just as absurd as asking what was before time itself.
So don’t you ever dare to use that FUD word again!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
That is perhaps the most pretentious coffee-sip I have ever experienced in text form. My fedora is off to you.
*sips coffee*
:D
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Number 1:
He better start his own company, because the only idiot that would hire the guy is himself.
Number 2:
Can't wait to NOT BUY A DAMN THING from ANY COMPANY THAT BEARS HIS NAME.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
They already tried that. A bunch of FOSS developers then said, "bring it".
Near as I can tell, nothing ever developed from it.
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-
No they didn't, all they did was throw a little FUD, which costs MSFT exactly $0. I'm talking about old monkey boy saying "aww to hell with it" and dragging every single major Linux vendor into court with every thing they've patented in the last forever. Remember the USPTO granted fricking "one click" to Amazon for the love of Pete, so there ain't no telling what kinds of crap is currently owned by MSFT.
As I said, this would be costly on both sides, but MSFT could afford it. I personally think Ballmer was just throwing FUD before because his lawyers told him that anti-trust would fall like a piano on his head if he actually tried to wipe Linux off the earth. Even though Linux only has 1% of the desktops, and last I checked 14% of the servers (it was on PCWorld by that Linux troll Nichols if you want to look it up) it still gives MSFT the ability to say "see, we are not a monopoly! No sireee Bob!" same as Intel needs AMD to stay afloat in second place.
But considering the minefield of patents and copyrights it would be a miracle if Linux wasn't infringing on 100s of MSFT patents, just as I'm sure there are at least a couple dozen that MSFT is infringing on Linux. Ehhhh...the whole thing is moot anyway, as MSFT figured out how to backdoor screw Linux by using their own elitist bullshit against them. While the Linux nerds have been offering NO solutions to the mobile problem other than tired old EXT2/3 while screaming "Free as in freedom!" MSFT quietly cooked up ExFAT which Samsung has already jumped onboard and I'm sure the other big mobile chip manufacturers will jump on shortly.
What this means is in a couple of years Linux is royally fucked. MSFT from what I understand really locked down ExFAT patent wise, so "free as in freedom!" ain't gonna mean jack shit when you can't hook up your camera, cell phone, PMP, etc, etc, and any attempt at a workaround will most likely step right on a MSFT patent landmine and blow up ala TomTom. It is like I've said before...Linux is its own worst enemy. Just as they should have been pushing a FOSS hardware acceleration for Theora right from the start, instead of letting H264 get accelerated on everything from notebooks to cell phones, so did the file limitations of FAT give Linux developers a golden opportunity to come up with a fast royalty free file system to own the mobile space. Instead they only pointed to old ass EXT, which was never made for SSD unlike the new ExFAT, and they've let MSFT walk right in and take another sector without even a fight. Just stupid if you ask me.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Only if by "most successful" in terms of economic growth, you mean "has the fourth highest GDP growth rate".
China doesn't even have the highest GDP growth rate if the only countries you consider are China and the countries which border it directly, as Mongolia has it beat.
(China is farther from first -- about #10 -- in the more meaningful measure of rate of annual growth in the GDP per capita.)
By annual GDP growth rate, China is #4 from the most recent stats I've seen, and #10 in annual growth in per capita GDP. In neither case is it fairly characterized as having the rest of the rest of the world beat hands down.
I peer through my monocle and raise my topper.
I'd like to see you cap that.