Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 24.117.239.128]
on August 02, 2008 10:26 PM
Not quite. They originally bought SCO's operating systems business when Ransom Love, an actually HONEST man, was still CEO of Caldera. It was originally to make Linux a much more robust, UNIX-featured operating system kernel. In other words, Love wanted to COMPLETELY open up the UNIX property they had. Unfortunately, Mr. Love made the mistake of hiring Darl "Linux is a copy of UNIX" McBride and putting him on senior management and then leaving the company a couple years later.
McBride didn't have ANY noble goals for SCO, UNIX, or Linux that Love did, and he is the one responsible for Caldera renaming itself SCO and claiming to own UNIX IP it didn't. (Evidence has been discovered that McBride KNEW he didn't have any actual IP at least a year before he started the lawsuits.)
If I were Ransom Love, I would be seriously regretting letting the likes of Darl McBride even look in the general DIRECTION of his company, let alone basically letting a potentially good thing for Linux turn into probably the most ridiculous litigation in IP rights history!
The honest to god truth as far as anyone with an IQ can tell is that McBride saw an opportunity for a pump and dump scheme and the hopes of a takeover. In other words, once McBride became CEO, he wasn't actually looking to make SCO a successful company, he was basically trying to get rich without really earning it, but rather by committing fraud and perjury. He deserves to be in prison.
When that 100 Megadollar deal was on the table, why do you think it is that they actually wanted Darl to be terminated if that deal were to go through? Likely because they SAW what he was doing and wanted to fix the company. Of course, I was happy to learn the deal went south, simply because I don't think SCO is a company worth saving, even when it was still Caldera.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.117.239.128] on August 02, 2008 10:26 PMMcBride didn't have ANY noble goals for SCO, UNIX, or Linux that Love did, and he is the one responsible for Caldera renaming itself SCO and claiming to own UNIX IP it didn't. (Evidence has been discovered that McBride KNEW he didn't have any actual IP at least a year before he started the lawsuits.)
If I were Ransom Love, I would be seriously regretting letting the likes of Darl McBride even look in the general DIRECTION of his company, let alone basically letting a potentially good thing for Linux turn into probably the most ridiculous litigation in IP rights history!
The honest to god truth as far as anyone with an IQ can tell is that McBride saw an opportunity for a pump and dump scheme and the hopes of a takeover. In other words, once McBride became CEO, he wasn't actually looking to make SCO a successful company, he was basically trying to get rich without really earning it, but rather by committing fraud and perjury. He deserves to be in prison.
When that 100 Megadollar deal was on the table, why do you think it is that they actually wanted Darl to be terminated if that deal were to go through? Likely because they SAW what he was doing and wanted to fix the company. Of course, I was happy to learn the deal went south, simply because I don't think SCO is a company worth saving, even when it was still Caldera.
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