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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."
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.
If brains are equated to IP, then the comparison is apt. Zombies eat the brains of the living, to the detriment of the living, just to prolong the zombies' pathetic existence. McBride wants to harvest the IP of others, to the detriment of the originators of said IP, only to prolong his pathetic existence.
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.
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...who is the zombie: SCO, Mc Bride, or both ?!?
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.
If brains are equated to IP, then the comparison is apt. Zombies eat the brains of the living, to the detriment of the living, just to prolong the zombies' pathetic existence. McBride wants to harvest the IP of others, to the detriment of the originators of said IP, only to prolong his pathetic existence.
Perhaps not coincidentally, this also reads a lot like the theme of Atlas Shrugged... except, you know, no zombies and all that.
at least 11% more.
It's only $35k!
I'll personally commit $100 to create a fund to outbid him.
Who's with me?
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Gahhh!!! Never forget Rule No. 4: Doubletap!
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*
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
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
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.
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)
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.