[ale] SCO fires CEO Darl McBride, architect of litigation strategy

Wed Oct 21 10:36:14 EDT 2009

"win/win" - No doubt means Windows wins if they can make this work.

The funny thing is what he says lasts "I will take the necessary actions
to protect the interests of all SCO estate stakeholders."

Does that mean he's likely to sue SCO to protect SCO?

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Shapiro
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:52 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] SCO fires CEO Darl McBride,architect of litigation
strategy

Oh this is priceless. The man **still** has dreams of Billions getting
us to pay to use linux. After getting Fired, he wrote a letter to the
current SCO Chapter 11 trustee (that's the guy who fired him). Here's an
excerpt from groklaw:

**

SCO's expert witnesses have given strong support of SCO's claims that
the Linux operating environment has misused SCO intellectual property.
There are over 20,000,000 Linux servers worldwide that SCO now has the
opportunity to provide licensing support. SCO's license price for its IP
is $699. The total market opportunity for this licensing program
worldwide is $14 Billion dollars. A quick, cheap settlement with IBM
would totally bury this significant financial opportunity for SCO.
[Remainder of paragraph redacted for confidential information].

Options 

Where do we go from here? While I obviously disagree on some key
decisions that your office has taken in the SCO case, I believe that
there is an opportunity for a win/win from where we currently stand. It
has to do with the SCOsource licensing program. I believe that the value
that I provide to SCO as CEO is significant. I believe that my $127/hr
rate is, at a minimum, more valuable to SCO than the $500/hr that the
bean counters at OPA [Ocean Park Associates] are billing SCO. But, if
you disagree with me and feel that I should step down as CEO, then I
would propose that you shift my role to be the senior licensing
executive over the SCOsource program. I would agree to a comp plan that
would be heavy on performance incentives and much lower on base salary.
I also know without a doubt that I can help you raise capital into SCO
given the recent positive 10th Circuit ruling. This could be a side
project. The million or so dollars that you want Ralph Yarro [former
chairman of SCO] and other shareholders to contribute in the form of a
DIP [debtor-in-possession] loan may pay Blank Rome/OPA fees but it's not
going to solve the broader issue of ensuring that creditors are paid in
full and allowing the SCO cases to go to trial. 

In the final analysis, if you believe that you want to go at the SCO
battle alone without my services at all, then I will take the necessary
actions to protect the interests of all SCO estate stakeholders. Those
interests don't include winding the company down and settling the legal
cases for pennies on the dollar for what they are worth. 

-- CHS

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com>
wrote:

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:53 PM, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
>
> On 2009, Oct, 19, , at 1:19 PM, Jon Reagan wrote:
>
>> LOL that's good news.  Of course, this doesn't surprise me:
>>
>> "In a statement issued by SCO's new leadership, the company indicates
>> that it plans to continue its litigation efforts and will move
forward
>> with the appeals process."
>>
>> Jon
>
> Of course they haven't learned.  They're TROLLS. :-)
>
> It doesn't really matter though, because the courts are fed up
> with their frivolous abuses of our legal system as well. The
> closing lines of the article are my favorite. The bankruptcy
> judge's commentary on the way SCO keeps stabbing at windmills
> pretty much says it all:
>
> ===
>
> "The courts are also growing impatient with the company's antics.
> Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross blocked SCO's last attempted asset
> sale and remarked in his ruling that the company's hopes for
> litigation success were like a bad remix of Waiting for Godot.
> Now that Darl has been axed, one wonders how long the rest of
> the company will continue its struggle for survival."
>
> ==
>
> The trolls of Tolkien mythology turn to stone when exposed
> to sunlight.  McBride and his brainless SCO cohorts clearly
> need to be exposed for the stone cold criminals that they
> are.
>
> peace
> aaron
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> ROFLMFAO
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> SCO fires CEO Darl McBride, architect of litigation strategy:
>>>>
>>>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/10/sco-fires-ceo-
>>>> darl-mcbride-architect-of-litigation-strategy.ars
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Jim P.
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Here I been thinking that SCO was dead and gone. God, this is worse
that than any bad B-Movie Villian, I rank SCO up there with Jason,
Freddy, and Michael. You know another film is going to come out, and
worse than the last.

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