SCO terminates McBride's job

Author: Gareth Halfacree
Published: 20th October 2009
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SCO terminates McBride's job

Darl McBride's position of CEO and President at SCO has been terminated with immediate effect.

SCO's legal struggles could be finally laid to rest with the news that CEO Darl McBride has left the company. The company previously claimed that Linux developers misappropriated SCO's Unix source code and intellectual property in the popular open-source Linux kernel, and owed the company huge amounts of money.

First spotted by Linux Today, the news of McBride's termination comes as part of The SCO Group's 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, dated October 14 2009.

Item 5.02 - "Departure of Directors or Certain Officers" - states that "on October 14, 2009, The SCO Group, Inc. [...] announced that the Company has eliminated the Chief Executive Officer and President positions and consequently terminated Darl McBride." With McBride gone, the chances of the company's long-running legal fight against Linux developers continuing are slim.

Despite McBride's confidence that suing Linux developers was the key to untold wealth, the courts have never agreed: a landmark decision in the case back in November 2008 saw Judge Dale A. Kimball dismiss the company's claims - a move which saw SCO's stock price plummet. Even while under the protection of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, McBride insisted that his plan was sound, but the bankruptcy court disagreed.

Although The SCO Group hasn't provided any reasons for McBride's termination as part of the 8-K filing, it looks as though the company may have had enough of attempting to litigate itself into the black. Perhaps now the company can finally find its way back to its core competency - a fairly decent version of Unix.

Do you believe that The SCO Group will start making the right decisions now that McBride has gone, or did he run the company too far into the ground while he was at the helm? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
Quote proxess 20th October 2009, 17:08
Let's see what will they do now. I'm curious for them to release some public announcement.
Quote frontline 20th October 2009, 17:30
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announced that the Company has eliminated the Chief Executive Officer and President positions and consequently terminated Darl McBride

:o Arnie is back?
Quote TomH 20th October 2009, 20:31
And whilst SCO has been off chastising the world of software as we know it in the various court rooms of America, Sun, IBM and ironically, Red Hat, have been busily stealing all of their customers. I doubt they'll be able to sell microwave firmware, much less raise the investment to develop anything. SCO is a company with a brand that will forever be tarnished by their callus and cowardly litigious behaviour.
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