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McBride outlines SCO's lawsuit strategy
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[March 3, 2004, 13:50]
SCO: We'll see Novell in court
News Darl McBride, chief executive of SCO, said the Linux dispute is based on contracts that IBM and numerous other companies signed with SCO in order to license the Unix operating system. Copyright issues raised by Novell, from which SCO bought the...
[June 2, 2003, 9:12]
SCO issues warning to open-source vigilantes
News Open-source software supporters need to do a better job of policing themselves as developers and activists, according to Darl McBride, chief executive of controversial Unix seller SCO Group. In an "open letter to the open-source community," McBride...
[September 9, 2003, 9:20]
SCO's 'Las Vegas code': All show?
News Code shown during a speech in Las Vegas by SCO chief executive Darl McBride to demonstrate how SCO intellectual property has found its way in Linux is nothing but fist-pounding, according to the latest attack on SCO's tactics.
[November 27, 2003, 12:40]
SCO readies lawsuit against 'recognised name'
News SCO chief executive Darl McBride announced the plan on Monday at the Software 2004 conference, but he didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognised name. McBride said the arrangement with EV1Servers.net is perpetual and that...
[March 2, 2004, 7:40]
Novell defends SuSE deal against SCO charges
News The enterprise software company issued a statement on Tuesday dismissing a claim by SCO chief executive Darl McBride that the acquisition contravenes an agreement signed in 1995. McBride's characterisation of the agreements between Novell and SCO...
[November 20, 2003, 10:05]
SCO sets steep charge for Linux licence
News McBride said businesses that continue using Linux without a SCO license can expect legal action. In a teleconference with media and financial analysts, SCO chief executive Darl McBride bluntly accused Red Hat of distributing Linux software that...
[August 6, 2003, 9:10]
SCO wanted to gag Torvalds
News In the letter, dated 11 February, 2004, SCO attorney Kevin McBride requested information regarding individuals and organisations SCO had been "told" were being funded by IBM, as SCO was "concerned" about statements regarding its litigation by...
[April 30, 2007, 14:38]
SCO says threat to Linux creator was overstated
News SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride said a published report that his company may take legal action against Linux founder Linus Torvalds was overstated. The copying of source code could potentially expand SCO's legal actions beyond IBM through...
[May 30, 2003, 8:14]
McBride reaches for rhetoric in Linux battle
News SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride is invoking the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over Unix intellectual property rights. In an open letter posted on the SCO Web site Thursday, McBride argues that the General Public Licence (GPL) that...
[December 8, 2003, 13:45]
SCO engineer: No smoking gun found in Linux
News The email, which was sent to SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride by a senior vice-president at the company, forwards on an email from a SCO engineer. In the email, Davidson shares his findings with Senior vice-president Reg Broughton, who then...
[July 15, 2005, 9:10]
Novell defends SuSE deal against SCO charges
Talkback What continues to irk me is McBride's constant use of "we" in the context of SCO in the 1990s. While it is true that Caldera bought assets from SCO in 2000, and subsequently changed their name, Caldera was not there in 1995 when the Novell...
[November 21, 2003, 21:42]
SCO: Our code is in Linux
News Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to disguise their origin, SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride said Thursday.
[May 2, 2003, 7:22]
SCO rules out further court cases
News SCO, the US software vendor that has angered most of the open-source community with its claim that its proprietary Unix source code has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel, won't be launching any more lawsuits in the foreseeable future...
[August 4, 2004, 12:35]
SCO ponders hike in 'Linux IP' licence fees
News Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive, revealed last week that his company weren't planning to bring any more lawsuits anytime soon. If so, IBM's position is somewhat at odds with that of SCO, given McBride's willingness to discuss the legal position...
[August 10, 2004, 11:25]
McBride denied telephone service
News While SCO's technical staff worked at dodging MyDoom's assault on the company's Web site, their chief executive officer, Darl McBride, was experiencing a denial of service attack at a much closer range.
[February 4, 2004, 7:55]
SCO dangles Linux-licence carrot
News A contract unearthed from a filing cabinet showed that SCO had some of the copyrights, and now SCO has registered copyrights for Unix System V and Unixware, McBride said. We have a solution that gets you clean, gets you square with the use of Linux...
[July 22, 2003, 7:51]
SCO reschedules lawsuit revelation
News SCO chief executive Darl McBride said on Monday that the company planned to talk about the suits on Tuesday, but Stowell said the company needed more time to prepare the announcement. McBride said Monday that the company has about $64m in cash...
[March 3, 2004, 7:20]
SCO exhibits contentious code
News During the first two hours of a morning keynote session at SCO Forum on Monday, chief executive Darl McBride outlined the company's legal strategy and tried to convince SCO partners and customers that it is fighting the good fight.
[August 19, 2003, 8:40]
SCO puts focus on countertop
News Although SCO is not releasing details of the service yet, McBride said it will fit in with the company's focus on its UnixWare and OpenServer operating systems, and in particular with retail customers who run OpenServer in their branch offices.
[October 3, 2002, 14:48]
