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

Wed Oct 21 09:51:33 EDT 2009

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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