Beautiful news.
But let me temper my glee a little bit. Darl McBride clearly misled his employees and investors into thinking SCO had a chance in court against Novell and IBM. These people were loyal to him and were more than willing to put their livelihoods into his hands. All that they wanted, I am sure, was to produce quality software and reap the fruits of their labors.
Novell has an opportunity to show its generosity by inviting the best of SCO’s software development team, whatever remains of it, to come aboard. Red Hat would also be well served in showing some magnanimity. The responsibility of SCO’s financial ruin rests on McBride’s shoulders. He pursued his quixotic campaign against Linux so its nasty end, but what many forget is that McBride wasn’t just going after Linux. He threatened Apple. BSD. McBride even had the chutzpah to threaten Microsoft.
At the time, McBride could do nothing more than congratulate himself for his scheme of selling snake oil UNIX licenses to Linux users for $199 a pop for workstations and $699 for servers. Now he is probably busy looking for cardboard boxes to pack up his office with. Surely SCOs boardmembers have not taken the Chapter 11 filing laying down…
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